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Assembly Bill A5140

2017-2018 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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2017-A5140 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Correction
Law Section:
Correction Law
Laws Affected:
Add §114, Cor L
Versions Introduced in 2015-2016 Legislative Session:
A8222

2017-A5140 (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.

2017-A5140 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   5140
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 6, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  ROSENTHAL  --  read once and referred to the
   Committee on 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:
   § 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.
   § 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.
                                                            LBD05118-01-7

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