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Senate Bill S77

2009-2010 Legislative Session

Allows inmates in correctional institutions to work for, and the product of their labor may be disposed of to, any non-profit organization

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Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Crime Victims, Crime And Correction Committee

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2009-S77 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Crime Victims, Crime And Correction
Law Section:
Correction Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง170, Cor L

2009-S77 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Allows inmates in correctional institutions to work for, and the product of their labor may be disposed of to, any non-profit organization; requires annual reports on inmate labor.

2009-S77 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2009-S77 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                   77

                       2009-2010 Regular Sessions

                            I N  S E N A T E

                               (PREFILED)

                             January 7, 2009
                               ___________

Introduced  by  Sen.  VOLKER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
  printed to be committed to the Committee on Crime Victims,  Crime  and
  Correction

AN ACT to amend the correction law, in relation to allowing inmate labor
  for non-profit organizations

  THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 170  of  the  correction  law,  as
amended  by chapter 166 of the laws of 1991, is amended and a new subdi-
vision 3 is added to read as follows:
  1. The commissioner [of correctional services] shall  not,  nor  shall
any  other authority whatsoever, make any contract by which the labor or
time of any inmate in any state or local correctional facility  in  this
state,  or  the product or profit of his work, shall be contracted, let,
farmed out, given or sold to any person,  firm,  association  or  corpo-
ration; except that the inmates in [said] SUCH correctional institutions
may work for, and the products of their labor may be disposed of to, the
state or any political subdivision thereof, any public institution owned
or  managed  and  controlled  by the state, or any political subdivision
thereof OR ANY NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATION.  NO INMATE IN A STATE  OR  LOCAL
CORRECTIONAL  FACILITY  WHO  DECLINES TO WORK FOR A PARTICULAR RELIGIOUS
ORGANIZATION, AUTHORIZED BY THIS SUBDIVISION TO HAVE  INMATES  WORK  FOR
SUCH ORGANIZATION, SHALL BE DISCIPLINED OR SUFFER ANY DETRIMENTAL TREAT-
MENT,  INCLUDING,  BUT  NOT LIMITED TO, THE LOSS OF GOOD BEHAVIOR ALLOW-
ANCES.  AS USED IN THIS SUBDIVISION, THE TERM "NON-PROFIT  ORGANIZATION"
MEANS AN ORGANIZATION OPERATED EXCLUSIVELY FOR RELIGIOUS, CHARITABLE, OR
EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES, NO PART OF THE NET EARNINGS OF WHICH INURES TO THE
BENEFIT OF ANY PRIVATE SHAREHOLDER OR INDIVIDUAL.
  3. THE COMMISSIONER SHALL SUBMIT AN ANNUAL REPORT TO THE GOVERNOR, THE
TEMPORARY  PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE, AND THE SPEAKER OF THE ASSEMBLY, AND

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.

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