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Assembly Bill A9210A

2015-2016 Legislative Session

Relates to allowing telephone calls for inmates after transfer from correctional facilities

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

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2015-A9210 - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Crime Victims, Crime And Correction
Law Section:
Correction Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §23, Cor L
Versions Introduced in 2017-2018 Legislative Session:
A1730

2015-A9210 - Summary

Relates to allowing telephone calls for inmates after transfer from correctional facilities.

2015-A9210 - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  9210

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            February 4, 2016
                               ___________

Introduced by M. of A. MOSLEY -- read once and referred to the Committee
  on Correction

AN  ACT  to  amend the correction law, in relation to allowing telephone
  calls for inmates after transfer from correctional facilities

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

  Section  1.  Subdivision  1  of  section  23 of the correction law, as
amended by section 5 of subpart B of part C of chapter 62 of the laws of
2011, is amended to read as follows:
  1. The commissioner shall have the power to transfer inmates from  one
correctional  facility to another. Whenever the transfer of inmates from
one correctional facility to another shall be ordered by the commission-
er, the superintendent of the facility from which the inmates are trans-
ferred shall take immediate steps to make  the  transfer.  The  transfer
shall  be  in  accordance  with rules and regulations promulgated by the
department for the safe delivery  of  such  inmates  to  the  designated
facility.  WITHIN TWENTY-FOUR HOURS OF ARRIVING AT THE FACILITY TO WHICH
AN INMATE IS TRANSFERRED, HE OR SHE SHALL BE ALLOWED TO  MAKE  AT  LEAST
ONE PERSONAL PHONE CALL, EXCEPT WHEN TO DO SO WOULD CREATE AN UNACCEPTA-
BLE RISK TO THE SAFETY AND SECURITY OF INMATES OR STAFF.
  S  2.  This  act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
have become a law.





 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD13498-02-6

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2015-A9210A (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Crime Victims, Crime And Correction
Law Section:
Correction Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §23, Cor L
Versions Introduced in 2017-2018 Legislative Session:
A1730

2015-A9210A (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to allowing telephone calls for inmates after transfer from correctional facilities.

2015-A9210A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                 9210--A

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            February 4, 2016
                               ___________

Introduced   by   M.   of   A.  MOSLEY,  SIMON,  RICHARDSON,  SEPULVEDA,
  PEOPLES-STOKES -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. BRENNAN -- read  once
  and  referred  to the Committee on Correction -- committee discharged,
  bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended  and  recommitted  to  said
  committee

AN  ACT  to  amend the correction law, in relation to allowing telephone
  calls for inmates after transfer from correctional facilities

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

  Section  1.  Subdivision  1  of  section  23 of the correction law, as
amended by section 5 of subpart B of part C of chapter 62 of the laws of
2011, is amended to read as follows:
  1. The commissioner shall have the power to transfer inmates from  one
correctional  facility to another. Whenever the transfer of inmates from
one correctional facility to another shall be ordered by the commission-
er, the superintendent of the facility from which the inmates are trans-
ferred shall take immediate steps to make  the  transfer.  The  transfer
shall  be  in  accordance  with rules and regulations promulgated by the
department for the safe delivery  of  such  inmates  to  the  designated
facility.  WITHIN TWENTY-FOUR HOURS OF ARRIVING AT THE FACILITY TO WHICH
AN INMATE IS TRANSFERRED, HE OR SHE SHALL BE ALLOWED TO  MAKE  AT  LEAST
ONE PERSONAL PHONE CALL, EXCEPT WHEN TO DO SO WOULD CREATE AN UNACCEPTA-
BLE  RISK  TO  THE  SAFETY AND SECURITY OF INMATES OR STAFF. IF SECURITY
PRECAUTIONS PREVENT THE INMATE FROM MAKING SUCH  CALL,  A  STAFF  MEMBER
DESIGNATED  BY THE SUPERINTENDENT OF THE FACILITY SHALL MAKE A CALL TO A
PERSON OF THE INMATE'S CHOICE UNLESS THE INMATE DECLINES TO HAVE SUCH  A
CALL MADE.
  S  2.  This  act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
have become a law.


 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD13498-03-6

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