Senate Bill S4398

                             
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                                   4398
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             February 4, 2025
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 Introduced  by  Sen.  COMRIE -- 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 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 TWEN-
 TY-SIX, 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 INCARCERATED INDIVIDUAL
 MORTALITY INVESTIGATIONS 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   INCARCERATED   INDIVIDUAL,
 SENTENCE  AND  TIME  SERVED,  GENDER, RACE AND ETHNICITY OF INCARCERATED
 INDIVIDUAL, 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 INCARCERATED INDIVID-
 UAL WAS IN RECEIPT OF SPECIALIZED CARE OR TREATMENT OR  IN  DISCIPLINARY
 CONFINEMENT,  WHETHER SUCH INCARCERATED INDIVIDUAL 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 INCARCERATED INDIVIDUAL MORTALITY.
   B.  FOR  ALL  DEATHS  THAT  RESULT FROM SUICIDE OR OTHER CATEGORIES OF
 INCARCERATED INDIVIDUAL DEATH, A DETAILED PRELIMINARY  REPORT  SHALL  BE
 PROVIDED  TO  THE RECIPIENTS OF THE ANNUAL REPORT LISTED IN THIS SECTION
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD05816-01-5
              

 S. 4398                             2
 
 WITHIN SEVEN DAYS THAT SPECIFIES THE NAME OF THE INCARCERATED INDIVIDUAL
 AND THE CIRCUMSTANCES OF THEIR DEATH, THE STATUS  OF  THE  INVESTIGATION
 INTO  SUCH  DEATH, AND WHETHER ANY OTHER INCARCERATED INDIVIDUALS, STAFF
 OR  OFFICERS INVOLVED IN THE CIRCUMSTANCES THAT RESULTED IN THE DEATH OF
 THE INCARCERATED INDIVIDUAL 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.