Section 652. Delivery of warrant and confinement

1. Within ten days after
  the issuance of a warrant as provided in section six  hundred  fifty  of
  this  article,  the sheriff or the commissioner of correction, if within
  the city of New York or county of Westchester, must deliver the  warrant
  and  the  person sentenced, if that person is not already in the custody
  of the department, to the department or to  the  superintendent  of  the
  state  institution designated by the commissioner.  Upon the issuance of
  the warrant the court shall cause a copy to be personally  delivered  to
  the  convicted  person  and  shall  send  a  copy  of the warrant to the
  convicted person's last attorney of record.
    2. From the time  of  the  delivery  of  the  warrant  and  until  the
  imposition  of the punishment of death upon the convicted person, unless
  discharged from the sentence, such person  may,  in  the  commissioner's
  discretion,  either  be kept isolated from the general prison population
  in a designated institution or confined as otherwise  provided  by  law.
  The  commissioner,  in his discretion, may determine that the safety and
  security of the facility, or of the inmate population, or of the  staff,
  or  of  the inmate, would not be jeopardized by the inmate's confinement
  within the general prison population.
    3. The commissioner may promulgate rules  and  regulations  concerning
  visitation  of  inmates  sentenced to death.  Such rules and regulations
  may provide that inmates sentenced to death  are  subject  to  different
  visitation policies and procedures than inmates who are not sentenced to
  death.