Senate Bill S1623

2019-2020 Legislative Session

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

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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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2019-S1623 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A2500
Current Committee:
Senate Crime Victims, Crime And Correction
Law Section:
Correction Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§137, 138, 2, 401, 401-a, 500-k & 45, Cor L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2013-2014: S6466, A8588
2015-2016: S2659, A4401
2017-2018: S3824, S4784, A3080
2021-2022: S1757, S2836, A2277

2019-S1623 (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.

2019-S1623 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2019-S1623 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                   1623
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 15, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by Sen. SEPULVEDA -- 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 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. 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 of
 an inmate in [a special housing unit or in a separate  keeplock  housing
 unit.    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] ANY FORM OF
 CELL CONFINEMENT FOR MORE THAN SEVENTEEN HOURS A DAY  OTHER  THAN  IN  A
 FACILITY-WIDE  EMERGENCY  OR  FOR  THE  PURPOSE  OF PROVIDING MEDICAL OR
 MENTAL HEALTH TREATMENT. CELL CONFINEMENT THAT  IS  IMPLEMENTED  DUE  TO
 MEDICAL  OR  MENTAL  HEALTH TREATMENT SHALL BE WITHIN A CLINICAL AREA IN
 THE CORRECTIONAL FACILITY OR IN AS  CLOSE  PROXIMITY  TO  A  MEDICAL  OR
 MENTAL HEALTH UNIT AS POSSIBLE.
   §  2.  Section  2  of  the correction law is amended by adding two new
 subdivisions 32 and 33 to read as follows:
   32. "SPECIAL POPULATIONS" MEANS ANY PERSON: (A)  TWENTY-ONE  YEARS  OF
 AGE  OR  YOUNGER; (B) FIFTY-FIVE YEARS OF AGE OR OLDER; (C) WITH A DISA-
 BILITY AS DEFINED IN PARAGRAPH (A) OF SUBDIVISION TWENTY-ONE OF  SECTION
 TWO  HUNDRED NINETY-TWO OF THE EXECUTIVE LAW; OR (D) WHO IS PREGNANT, IN
 THE FIRST EIGHT WEEKS OF THE POST-PARTUM RECOVERY  PERIOD  AFTER  GIVING
 BIRTH,  OR  CARING FOR A CHILD IN A CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTION PURSUANT TO
 SUBDIVISIONS TWO OR THREE OF SECTION SIX HUNDRED ELEVEN OF THIS CHAPTER.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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