Bill Text: NY A02534 | 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: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-06-19 - substituted by s3498 [A02534 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A02534-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          2534
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 20, 2017
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        Introduced  by M. of A. ROZIC -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on 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.
                                                                   LBD05038-01-7