Bill Text: NY A02285 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Relates to personal phone calls for inmates in certain circumstances.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 22-0)
Status: (Passed) 2019-09-13 - signed chap.261 [A02285 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-A02285-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 2285 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY January 22, 2019 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. ROZIC, BARRON, BLAKE, GOTTFRIED, JAFFEE, MOSLEY, O'DONNELL, PICHARDO, QUART, STIRPE, WRIGHT -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. COLTON, COOK, CRESPO, DAVILA, LUPARDO, PERRY, RIVERA, SIMON -- read once and referred to the Committee on Correction AN ACT to amend the correction law, in relation to personal phone calls for inmates in certain circumstances The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 6 of section 137 of the correction law is 2 amended by adding a new paragraph (g) to read as follows: 3 (g) Within twenty-four hours of disciplinary confinement, keeplock 4 pending a disciplinary hearing, placement in a segregated confinement 5 unit for administrative purposes, or placement in a residential mental 6 health treatment unit, and at weekly intervals thereafter for the dura- 7 tion of such confinement, an inmate shall be permitted to make at least 8 one personal phone call, except when to do so would create an unaccepta- 9 ble risk to the safety and security of inmates or staff. 10 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD00815-02-9
