In case any pestilence or contagious disease shall break out among the incarcerated individuals in any of the correctional facilities, or in the vicinity of such facilities, the commissioner of correction may cause the incarcerated individuals confined in such facility, or any of them, to be removed to some suitable place of security, where such of them as may be sick shall receive all necessary care and medical assistance; such incarcerated individuals shall be returned as soon as may be feasible to the facility from which they were taken, to be confined therein according to their respective sentences.
New York Legal Code