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Senate Bill S3816

2015-2016 Legislative Session

Requires that rehabilitation programs for female inmates in state correctional facilities be equivalent to those provided to male inmates elsewhere in the state

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

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2015-S3816 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A8222
Current Committee:
Senate Crime Victims, Crime And Correction
Law Section:
Correction Law
Laws Affected:
Add §114, Cor L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: S5993
2011-2012: S3913
2013-2014: S3369
2017-2018: A5140

2015-S3816 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires that rehabilitation programs for female inmates in state correctional facilities be equivalent to those provided to male inmates of correctional facilities elsewhere in the state; provides that such rehabilitation programs shall include, but not be limited to, vocational, academic and industrial programs.

2015-S3816 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2015-S3816 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  3816

                       2015-2016 Regular Sessions

                            I N  S E N A T E

                            February 18, 2015
                               ___________

Introduced  by  Sen. HASSELL-THOMPSON -- 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 assuring rehabili-
  tation programs for female inmates  equivalent  to  programs  afforded
  male inmates

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

  Section 1.  The correction law is amended by adding a new section  114
to read as follows:
  S  114.  REHABILITATION PROGRAMS FOR WOMEN.  THE DEPARTMENT SHALL TAKE
STEPS TO ENSURE, TO THE GREATEST  EXTENT  PRACTICABLE  WITHIN  AVAILABLE
APPROPRIATIONS,  THAT  PROGRAMS  OF  REHABILITATION,  INCLUDING  BUT NOT
LIMITED TO VOCATIONAL, ACADEMIC AND INDUSTRIAL PROGRAMS, IN ALL  CORREC-
TIONAL  FACILITIES  IN  WHICH  WOMEN ARE DETAINED ARE COMPARABLE TO SUCH
PROGRAMS PROVIDED TO MALE INMATES AND ARE DESIGNED TO ASSIST INMATES  TO
OBTAIN STABLE AND GAINFUL EMPLOYMENT UPON RELEASE.
  S  2.  This  act  shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
have become a law; provided that the  commissioner  of  corrections  and
community  supervision is authorized to promulgate any and all rules and
regulations and take any  other  measures  necessary  to  implement  the
provisions of this act on its effective date on or before such effective
date.



 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD09262-01-5

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