Section 200. Department programs and incentive allowances

1. For the
  purpose of this section the  term  "incentive  allowance"  means  monies
  allowed  an inmate of a state correctional institution for the efficient
  and willing performance of duties assigned or progress  and  achievement
  in educational, career and industrial training programs.
    2.  In  lieu  of  the  system  of  labor  in correctional institutions
  established  by  this  article,  the  commissioner  may,  in  order   to
  facilitate  an  inmate's  eventual reintegration into society, establish
  for the inmates in one or more state correctional institutions a  system
  of   educational,  career  and  industrial  training  programs,  and  of
  incentive allowances for each such program.
    3. For  each  institution  wherein  such  system  is  established  the
  commissioner  shall  prepare,  and may at times revise, graded incentive
  allowance schedules for the inmates within each such program based  upon
  the  levels  of performance and achievement by an inmate in a program to
  which he has been assigned. Upon the approval of  the  director  of  the
  budget such schedules or revisions thereof may be promulgated.
    4.  The  commissioner  shall  also  provide for the establishment of a
  credit system  for  each  inmate  and  the  manner  in  which  incentive
  allowances  shall  be  paid  to  the inmate or his dependents or held in
  trust for him until his release. The amount of incentive allowed to  the
  credit  of  any  inmate  shall be disposed of as provided by section one
  hundred eighty-nine.
    5. Incentive allowances may  be  paid  from  monies  provided  to  the
  department  and available to the facilities for non-personal services or
  from the correctional industry training and career education fund.
    6. Except as otherwise provided by this section, those  provisions  of
  law dealing with labor in state correctional institutions shall apply to
  industrial  training  in  state  correctional institutions including the
  disposition of services rendered and  products  produced  incidental  to
  such industrial training.