Bill Text: NY S03369 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires that rehabilitation programs for female inmates in state correctional facilities be equivalent to those provided to male inmates of correctional facilities elsewhere in the state; provides that such rehabilitation programs shall include, but not be limited to, vocational, academic and industrial programs.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-01-08 - REFERRED TO CRIME VICTIMS, CRIME AND CORRECTION [S03369 Detail]

Download: New_York-2013-S03369-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         3369
                              2013-2014 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                   February 1, 2013
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       Introduced  by Sens. HASSELL-THOMPSON, KRUEGER, MONTGOMERY -- 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  assuring  rehabili-
         tation  programs  for  female  inmates equivalent to programs afforded
         male inmates
         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 114
    2  to read as follows:
    3    S 114. REHABILITATION PROGRAMS FOR WOMEN.  THE DEPARTMENT  SHALL  TAKE
    4  STEPS  TO  ENSURE,  TO  THE GREATEST EXTENT PRACTICABLE WITHIN AVAILABLE
    5  APPROPRIATIONS, THAT  PROGRAMS  OF  REHABILITATION,  INCLUDING  BUT  NOT
    6  LIMITED  TO VOCATIONAL, ACADEMIC AND INDUSTRIAL PROGRAMS, IN ALL CORREC-
    7  TIONAL FACILITIES IN WHICH WOMEN ARE DETAINED  ARE  COMPARABLE  TO  SUCH
    8  PROGRAMS  PROVIDED TO MALE INMATES AND ARE DESIGNED TO ASSIST INMATES TO
    9  OBTAIN STABLE AND GAINFUL EMPLOYMENT UPON RELEASE.
   10    S 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth  day  after  it  shall
   11  have  become  a  law;  provided  that  the  commissioner of correctional
   12  services is authorized to promulgate any and all rules  and  regulations
   13  and  take  any  other  measures necessary to implement the provisions of
   14  this act on its effective date on or before such effective date.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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