Bill Text: NY A07241 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Relates to the establishment of an inmate visitation program, which gives inmates opportunities for personal contact with relatives, friends, clergy, volunteers and other persons to promote better institutional adjustment and better community adjustment upon release.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 7-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2018-04-18 - amended on third reading 7241a [A07241 Detail]
Download: New_York-2017-A07241-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 7241--A Cal. No. 506 2017-2018 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY April 12, 2017 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. WEPRIN, SEPULVEDA, WALKER, DE LA ROSA, BLAKE, MOSLEY -- read once and referred to the Committee on Correction -- ordered to a third reading, amended and ordered reprinted, retaining its place on the order of third reading AN ACT to amend the correction law, in relation to the establishment of an inmate visitation program The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The correction law is amended by adding a new section 138-b 2 to read as follows: 3 § 138-b. Inmate visitation program. State and local correctional 4 facilities shall provide inmate visitation programs which give inmates 5 opportunities for personal contact with relatives, friends, clergy, 6 volunteers and other persons to promote better institutional adjustment 7 and better community adjustment upon release. Such program shall 8 include, but not be limited to, (a) visiting hours that are reasonably 9 likely to accommodate persons traveling from within the state, (b) 10 visits of sufficient duration so that visitors and inmates will be able 11 to maintain relationship bonds, and (c) a published overcrowding policy 12 that is equitable with due consideration to the distance traveled by the 13 visitor. Video visitation may supplement, but shall not take the place 14 of, in-person visitation. No inmate is to be visited against his or her 15 will by any person. 16 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after 17 it shall have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD10877-04-8