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                       2015-2016 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            February 5, 2015
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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 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:

  Section 1. Subdivision 6 of section  137  of  the  correction  law  is
amended by adding a new paragraph (g) to read as follows:
  (G)  WITHIN  TWENTY-FOUR  HOURS  OF DISCIPLINARY CONFINEMENT, KEEPLOCK
PENDING A DISCIPLINARY HEARING, OR PLACEMENT IN A SEGREGATED CONFINEMENT
UNIT FOR ADMINISTRATIVE PURPOSES, AND AT  MONTHLY  INTERVALS  THEREAFTER
FOR  THE  DURATION  OF SUCH CONFINEMENT, AN INMATE SHALL BE PERMITTED TO
MAKE AT LEAST ONE PERSONAL PHONE CALL, EXCEPT WHEN TO DO SO WOULD CREATE
AN UNACCEPTABLE RISK TO THE SAFETY AND SECURITY OF INMATES OR STAFF.
  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