Bill Text: NY S00985 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Relates to personal phone calls for inmates in certain circumstances.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-01-06 - REFERRED TO CRIME VICTIMS, CRIME AND CORRECTION [S00985 Detail]
Download: New_York-2015-S00985-Introduced.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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985
2015-2016 Regular Sessions
I N S E N A T E
January 7, 2015
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Introduced by Sen. 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 personal phone calls
for inmates in certain circumstances
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 6 of section 137 of the correction law is
2 amended by adding a new paragraph (g) to read as follows:
3 (G) WITHIN TWENTY-FOUR HOURS OF DISCIPLINARY CONFINEMENT, KEEPLOCK
4 PENDING A DISCIPLINARY HEARING, OR PLACEMENT IN A SEGREGATED CONFINEMENT
5 UNIT FOR ADMINISTRATIVE PURPOSES, AND AT MONTHLY INTERVALS THEREAFTER
6 FOR THE DURATION OF SUCH CONFINEMENT, AN INMATE SHALL BE PERMITTED TO
7 MAKE AT LEAST ONE PERSONAL PHONE CALL, EXCEPT WHEN TO DO SO WOULD CREATE
8 AN UNACCEPTABLE RISK TO THE SAFETY AND SECURITY OF INMATES OR STAFF.
9 S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD03001-01-5
