Bill Text: NY S05516 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Senate Bill 5516 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Relates to an annual report of department statistics.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - REFERRED TO CRIME VICTIMS, CRIME AND CORRECTION [S05516 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-S05516-Introduced.html


                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          5516

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                      March 9, 2021
                                       ___________

        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:

     1    Section 1. Section 29 of the correction law is amended by adding a new
     2  subdivision 5 to read as follows:
     3    5.  a.  On or before the thirty-first day of March, two thousand twen-
     4  ty-two, and every year thereafter, the  commissioner  shall  provide  an
     5  annual  report  to the temporary president of the senate, the speaker of
     6  the assembly, the minority leader of the senate, the minority leader  of
     7  the  assembly  and  the  chairs  of  the senate crime victims, crime and
     8  correction and assembly correction committees on inmate mortality inves-
     9  tigations conducted by the department. Such report  shall  include,  but
    10  not  be  limited  to:  factors  such as cause of death and circumstances
    11  surrounding death, age of inmate, sentence and time served, gender, race
    12  and ethnicity of inmate, commitment offense, facility and time served in
    13  facility in which death occurred, location of death within the  facility
    14  or outside hospital and a statement as to whether or not such inmate was
    15  in  receipt of specialized care or treatment or in disciplinary confine-
    16  ment, whether such inmate was retrieved by next  of  kin  or  buried  on
    17  prison  grounds,  and  any  other such data as the department shall deem
    18  relevant. Such report shall include an analysis of any  apparent  trends
    19  and  comparison  to historic statistical data relating to inmate mortal-
    20  ity.
    21    b. For all deaths that result from  suicide  or  other  categories  of
    22  inmate  death,  a  detailed  preliminary report shall be provided to the
    23  recipients of the annual report listed in this section within seven days
    24  that specifies the name of the inmate and the circumstances  of  his  or

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD07701-01-1

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     1  her  death, the status of the investigation into such death, and whether
     2  any other inmates, staff or officers involved in the circumstances  that
     3  resulted  in  the death of the inmate were injured, seriously injured or
     4  severely injured requiring outside hospitalization, or if any other such
     5  person  has  been  suspended, detained or referred for prosecution. Upon
     6  completion of its investigation  the  department  shall  issue  a  final
     7  report to such recipients.
     8    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
     9  it shall have become a law.