N.Y. Correction Law Section 627
Breast cancer screening and diagnostic testing

Breast cancer screening and diagnostic testing shall be offered in accordance with nationally recognized clinical practice guidelines for the detection of breast cancer unless otherwise recommended by a physician at no cost to individuals housed in state and local correctional facilities used for the general confinement of incarcerated individuals and in any other state or local facility where individuals are detained or confined by law enforcement agencies. For the purposes of this section, “nationally recognized clinical practice guidelines” means evidence-based clinical practice guidelines informed by a systematic review of evidence and an assessment of the benefits and risks of alternative care options intended to optimize patient care, developed by independent organizations or medical professional societies utilizing a transparent methodology and reporting structure and with a conflict-of-interest policy. * NB Effective June 11, 2025

Source: Section 627 — Breast cancer screening and diagnostic testing, https://www.­nysenate.­gov/legislation/laws/COR/627 (updated Feb. 21, 2025; accessed May 24, 2025).

600
Certain correctional officers to administer oaths 600–A
Jail time records and certificates 601
Delivery of commitment with incarcerated individual 601–A
Return of persons erroneously sentenced for the purpose of resentence 601–B
Coram nobis prisoners 601–C
Felony prisoners 601–D
Post-release supervision 602
Expenses of sheriff for transporting prisoners 603
Rendering accounts for conveying of prisoners 604
Payment of accounts for transporting prisoners 605
Prisoners sentenced at one session of court to be transported at same time 605–A
Transportation of female incarcerated individuals 606
Payment of costs for prosecution of incarcerated individuals 607
Prohibition of double-bunked housing 610
Freedom of worship 611
Births to incarcerated individuals of correctional institutions and care of children of incarcerated individuals of correctional institut... 611–A
Commitments to county or regional correctional institutions 612
United States prisoners 613
Conveyance of prisoner after arrest 614
Care and support of civil prisoner 618
Duties of state correctional institutions, penitentiaries, county jails and reformatories 619
Cooperation with authorized agencies of the department of social services 620
Service of papers in civil judicial proceedings upon a prisoner 621
Interstate cooperation with law enforcement officers and agencies of other states and the federal government 622
Sex offender treatment program 623
Incarcerated individual telephone services 624
Next of kin 625
Menstrual products 626
Medication assisted treatment in correctional facilities 627
Breast cancer screening and diagnostic testing
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Accessed:
May 24, 2025

Last modified:
Feb. 21, 2025

§ 627’s source at nysenate​.gov

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