Bill Text: NY S03498 | 2017-2018 | 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 6-0)

Status: (Passed) 2017-10-23 - APPROVAL MEMO.8 [S03498 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-S03498-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          3498
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                    January 23, 2017
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        Introduced  by  Sens.  BAILEY, AVELLA -- 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 are 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    § 114.  Rehabilitation programs for women; to be commensurate to those
     4  afforded men.  In any state correctional facility  in  which  women  are
     5  detained  it shall be the duty of the warden or the chief administrative
     6  officer of such facility to assure that such women  be  provided  equiv-
     7  alent  programs  of  rehabilitation,  including but not limited to voca-
     8  tional, academic and industrial programs, within the appropriation  made
     9  therefor,  as  are  provided  to male inmates of correctional facilities
    10  elsewhere in the state.
    11    § 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth  day  after  it  shall
    12  have  become  a  law;  provided that the commissioner of corrections and
    13  community supervision is authorized to promulgate any and all rules  and
    14  regulations  and  take  any  other  measures  necessary to implement the
    15  provisions of this act on its effective date on or before such effective
    16  date.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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