NY State Senate Bill 2015-S3816

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

Introduced
- In Committee Assembly
- In Committee Senate
- On Floor Calendar Assembly
- On Floor Calendar Senate
- Passed Assembly
- Passed Senate
Delivered to Governor
Signed By Governor

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	Assembly Actions - Lowercase Senate Actions - UPPERCASE
Jan 06, 2016	referred to crime victims, crime and correction
May 28, 2015	reported and committed to finance
Feb 18, 2015	referred to crime victims, crime and correction

Votes

- May 28, 2015 - Crime Victims, Crime And Correction Committee Vote
  S3816
  
  10
  
  Aye
  
  0
  
  Nay
  
  1
  
  Aye with Reservations
  
  0
  
  Absent
  
  2
  
  Excused
  
  0
  
  Abstained
  - - Crime Victims, Crime And Correction Committee Vote: May 28, 2015
      
      aye (10)
      
      DeFrancisco
      
      Gallivan
      
      Griffo
      
      Little
      
      Montgomery
      
      Peralta
      
      Perkins
      
      Ritchie
      
      Savino
      
      Venditto
      
      aye wr (1)
      
      Nozzolio
      
      excused (2)
      
      Hassell-Thompson
      
      Rivera

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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

                                BILL NUMBER:S3816

TITLE OF BILL:  An act to amend the correction law, in relation to
assuring rehabilitation programs for female inmates equivalent to
programs afforded male inmates

PURPOSE OF BILL:

To extend to the female inmate population, anywhere in the State, the
same opportunity to participate in programs of rehabilitation that are
afforded to the male inmate population, thereby increasing the skills
available to these women, while incarcerated, for which they may train
to seek employment upon their release.

EFFECTS OF PRESENT LAW WHICH THIS BILL WOULD ALTER:

Adds new § 114 to the Correction Law.

JUSTIFICATION:

There is a disparity in the types and numbers of vocational and
industrial Programs and classes accessible to women inmates during
their incarceration as compared to those accessible to male inmates.
Far fewer vocational programs are offered in state correctional
facilities for women as compared to men and the ones offered include
traditionally female occupations. Far fewer industrial training shops

are offered in female facilities as compared to male facilities/ Where
programs are available in women facilities, there are long wait lists
such that those signed up may be released without having an
opportunity to gain the skills they signed up for. Women are now
entering non-traditional occupations in great numbers, such as
construction and building maintenance. Such work can be a major route
out of poverty and help end recidivism for women, inasmuch as the
wages for such work are greater than wages earned by women in
traditionally female occupations. Many of the vocational and
industrial programs offered to men train them to work in these
occupations upon release. without the appropriate skills, women will
have more difficulty competing for those jobs upon their release from
incarceration, This legislation will help ensure that relevant
programs providing marketable skills and training designed to assist
inmates obtain stable and gainful employment upon release are also
available to incarcerated women.

LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:

2009: S.5993/A.4809-A (Weinstein) - Vetoed Memo 79
2008: A.3126 - Passed Assembly
2007: A.3126 - Passed Assembly
2008-06: A.8173 - Passed the Assembly
2004: A.4302 - Assembly Calendar
2003: A.4302 - Assembly Calendar
2002: A.4434 - Rules Committee
2001: A.4434 Assembly Calendar
2000: A.3631 - Rules Committee
1999: A.3631 Corrections Committee
1997-98: A.3889 - Corrections Committee
1996: A.2336 - Corrections Committee


1995: A.2336 - Ways and Means Committee
1994: A.3518 - Corrections Committee
1993: A.3518 - Ways and Means Committee
1991-92: A.2718 - Ways and Means Committee
1989-90: A.5728 Ways and Means Committee
1987-88: A.3493 - Corrections Committee
198586: A.2944 - Corrections Committee

FISCAL IMPLICATIONS FOR STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENTS:

None.

EFFECTIVE DATE:

This act shall take effect on the 60th day after it shall have become
a law.

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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