Bill Text: NY A07585 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Allows inmates to make confidential phone calls to legal services providers or attorneys within the state at no charge to the inmate or the attorney.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - referred to correction [A07585 Detail]
Download: New_York-2021-A07585-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 7585 2021-2022 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY May 17, 2021 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. WEPRIN -- read once and referred to the Committee on Correction AN ACT to amend the correction law, in relation to inmate access to confidential phone calls The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 623 of the correction law is amended by adding a 2 new subdivision 5 to read as follows: 3 5. In order to provide unimpeded access to the courts, all inmates in 4 state and local correctional facilities shall be permitted confidential 5 telephone calls with legal service providers or any attorney in the 6 state without charge to the inmate or the attorney. No such telephone 7 call may be recorded, monitored or unreasonably restricted by such 8 correctional facility, the department or any other entity entering into 9 a contract to provide inmate telephone services, however, such telephone 10 call may be subject to restrictions and recordings by such legal 11 services provider or attorney. 12 § 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall 13 have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD08346-01-1
