Assembly Bill A4401

2015-2016 Legislative Session

Restricts the use of segregated confinement and creates alternative therapeutic and rehabilitative confinement options

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  • 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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2015-A4401 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S2659
Current Committee:
Assembly Correction
Law Section:
Correction Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§137, 2, 401-a & 45, Cor L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2013-2014: A8588, S6466
2017-2018: A3080, S3824, S4784
2019-2020: A2500, S1623
2021-2022: A2277, S1757, S2836

2015-A4401 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Restricts the use of segregated confinement and creates alternative therapeutic and rehabilitative confinement options; limits the length of time a person may be in segregated confinement and excludes certain persons from being placed in segregated confinement.

2015-A4401 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

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

                                  4401

                       2015-2016 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            January 30, 2015
                               ___________

Introduced  by  M.  of  A. AUBRY, PERRY, ARROYO, BARRETT, STECK, RIVERA,
  GOTTFRIED, WRIGHT, COOK, JAFFEE, DAVILA, LUPARDO, SEPULVEDA,  SCARBOR-
  OUGH,  MOSLEY, ORTIZ, ROBERTS, PEOPLES-STOKES -- Multi-Sponsored by --
  M. of A. BRENNAN, CLARK, FARRELL -- read  once  and  referred  to  the
  Committee on Correction

AN  ACT  to amend the correction law, in relation to restricting the use
  of segregated confinement and  creating  alternative  therapeutic  and
  rehabilitative confinement options

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

  Section 1. Section 137 of the correction law is amended  by  adding  a
new subdivision 5-a to read as follows:
  5-A.  THE  USE OF SEGREGATED CONFINEMENT, EXCLUSION OF CERTAIN SPECIAL
POPULATIONS, AND LENGTH OF TIME  ANY  PERSON  CAN  SPEND  IN  SEGREGATED
CONFINEMENT  SHALL BE RESTRICTED IN ACCORDANCE WITH PARAGRAPHS (G), (H),
(I), (J), (K), (L), (M), AND (N) OF SUBDIVISION SIX OF THIS  SECTION  OR
ANY OTHER APPLICABLE LAW.
  S  2.  Subdivision  23 of section 2 of the correction law, as added by
chapter 1 of the laws of 2008, is amended to read as follows:
  23. "Segregated confinement"  means  the  [disciplinary]  confinement,
OTHER   THAN   FOR  EMERGENCY  CONFINEMENT  AS  DEFINED  IN  SUBDIVISION
THIRTY-THREE OF THIS SECTION,  OR  FOR  DOCUMENTED  MEDICAL  REASONS  OR
MENTAL  HEALTH EMERGENCIES, of an inmate in a special housing unit or in
a separate keeplock housing unit  OR  ANY  FORM  OF  KEEPLOCK,  OR  CELL
CONFINEMENT  FOR MORE THAN SEVENTEEN HOURS A DAY OTHER THAN IN A FACILI-
TY-WIDE LOCKDOWN.  Special housing units and separate keeplock units are
housing units that consist of cells grouped so as to provide  separation
from  the  general population, and may be used to house inmates confined
pursuant to the disciplinary procedures described in regulations.
  S 3. Section 2 of the correction law is amended  by  adding  five  new
subdivisions 32, 33, 34, 35, and 36 to read as follows:

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD06950-01-5
              

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