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                                   6261
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               March 4, 2019
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 Introduced by M. of A. WALKER -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Correction
 
 AN  ACT  to amend the correction law, in relation to an annual report of
   department statistics
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. Section 29 of the correction law is amended by adding a new
 subdivision 5 to read as follows:
   5. A. ON OR BEFORE THE THIRTY-FIRST DAY OF MARCH, TWO THOUSAND TWENTY,
 AND  EVERY  YEAR  THEREAFTER,  THE  COMMISSIONER SHALL PROVIDE AN ANNUAL
 REPORT TO THE TEMPORARY PRESIDENT OF THE  SENATE,  THE  SPEAKER  OF  THE
 ASSEMBLY,  THE MINORITY LEADER OF THE SENATE, THE MINORITY LEADER OF THE
 ASSEMBLY  AND  THE  CHAIRS  OF  THE  SENATE  CRIME  VICTIMS,  CRIME  AND
 CORRECTION AND ASSEMBLY CORRECTION COMMITTEES ON INMATE MORTALITY INVES-
 TIGATIONS  CONDUCTED  BY  THE DEPARTMENT. SUCH REPORT SHALL INCLUDE, BUT
 NOT BE LIMITED TO: FACTORS SUCH AS  CAUSE  OF  DEATH  AND  CIRCUMSTANCES
 SURROUNDING DEATH, AGE OF INMATE, SENTENCE AND TIME SERVED, GENDER, RACE
 AND ETHNICITY OF INMATE, COMMITMENT OFFENSE, FACILITY AND TIME SERVED IN
 FACILITY  IN WHICH DEATH OCCURRED, LOCATION OF DEATH WITHIN THE FACILITY
 OR OUTSIDE HOSPITAL AND A STATEMENT AS TO WHETHER OR NOT SUCH INMATE WAS
 IN RECEIPT OF SPECIALIZED CARE OR TREATMENT OR IN DISCIPLINARY  CONFINE-
 MENT,  WHETHER  SUCH  INMATE  WAS  RETRIEVED BY NEXT OF KIN OR BURIED ON
 PRISON GROUNDS, AND ANY OTHER SUCH DATA AS  THE  DEPARTMENT  SHALL  DEEM
 RELEVANT.  SUCH  REPORT SHALL INCLUDE AN ANALYSIS OF ANY APPARENT TRENDS
 AND COMPARISON TO HISTORIC STATISTICAL DATA RELATING TO  INMATE  MORTAL-
 ITY.
   B.  FOR  ALL  DEATHS  THAT  RESULT FROM SUICIDE OR OTHER CATEGORIES OF
 INMATE DEATH, A DETAILED PRELIMINARY REPORT SHALL  BE  PROVIDED  TO  THE
 RECIPIENTS OF THE ANNUAL REPORT LISTED IN THIS SECTION WITHIN SEVEN DAYS
 THAT  SPECIFIES  THE  NAME OF THE INMATE AND THE CIRCUMSTANCES OF HIS OR
 HER DEATH, THE STATUS OF THE INVESTIGATION INTO SUCH DEATH, AND  WHETHER
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

                                                            LBD05940-01-9

 A. 6261                             2
 
 ANY  OTHER INMATES, STAFF OR OFFICERS INVOLVED IN THE CIRCUMSTANCES THAT
 RESULTED IN THE DEATH OF THE INMATE WERE INJURED, SERIOUSLY  INJURED  OR
 SEVERELY INJURED REQUIRING OUTSIDE HOSPITALIZATION, OR IF ANY OTHER SUCH
 PERSON  HAS  BEEN  SUSPENDED, DETAINED OR REFERRED FOR PROSECUTION. UPON
 COMPLETION OF ITS INVESTIGATION  THE  DEPARTMENT  SHALL  ISSUE  A  FINAL
 REPORT TO SUCH RECIPIENTS.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
 it shall have become a law.