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Senate Bill S9854

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Relates to residential rehabilitation units in correctional facilities

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Current Bill Status - In Senate Committee Crime Victims, Crime And Correction Committee

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2025-S9854 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Crime Victims, Crime And Correction
Law Section:
Correction Law
Laws Affected:
Add §608, Cor L

2025-S9854 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Prohibits the department of corrections from placing incarcerated individuals in two-person cells in residential rehabilitation units unless such incarcerated individuals agree.

2025-S9854 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   9854
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               April 8, 2026
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen. C. RYAN -- 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 residential rehabili-
   tation units in correctional facilities
 
   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  608
 to read as follows:
   §  608. PROHIBITION OF TWO-PERSON CELLS IN CERTAIN HOUSING SITUATIONS.
 1. FOR PURPOSES OF THIS SECTION, "TWO-PERSON  CELLS"  SHALL  MEAN  CELLS
 UTILIZED  BY  THE  DEPARTMENT  TO  HOUSE TWO INCARCERATED INDIVIDUALS IN
 RESIDENTIAL REHABILITATION UNITS AT THE SAME TIME.
   2. THE DEPARTMENT SHALL BE PROHIBITED FROM UTILIZING TWO-PERSON  CELLS
 IN  ANY RESIDENTIAL REHABILITATION UNIT, UNLESS AN INCARCERATED INDIVID-
 UAL SUBJECT TO A RESIDENTIAL REHABILITATION UNIT CELL  PROVIDES  EXPRESS
 AGREEMENT TO RESIDE IN SUCH A UNIT WITH ANOTHER INCARCERATED INDIVIDUAL.
 ANY  INCARCERATED INDIVIDUAL RESIDING IN A TWO-PERSON CELL IN A RESIDEN-
 TIAL REHABILITATION UNIT AT THE TIME THIS SECTION TAKES EFFECT WHO  DOES
 NOT  PROVIDE SUCH EXPRESS AGREEMENT, SHALL BE IMMEDIATELY RELOCATED TO A
 SINGLE CELL ENVIRONMENT WITHIN THE RESIDENTIAL REHABILITATION UNIT.
   3. THE DEPARTMENT SHALL BE AUTHORIZED  TO  PROMULGATE  OR  REPEAL  ANY
 RULES  OR  REGULATIONS NECESSARY TO FACILITATE THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE
 PROVISIONS OF THIS SECTION.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
 have become a law.
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD15435-01-6

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