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                                 7822--A

                       2015-2016 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                              May 27, 2015
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Introduced  by  M.  of A. WALKER, O'DONNELL -- read once and referred to
  the Committee  on  Correction  --  recommitted  to  the  Committee  on
  Correction  in  accordance  with  Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee
  discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
  to said committee

AN ACT to amend the correction law, in relation to an annual  report  of
  department of statistics

  THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section 1. Section 29 of the correction law is amended by adding a new
subdivision 5 to read as follows:
  5. A. ON OR BEFORE THE THIRTY-FIRST DAY OF MARCH, TWO THOUSAND  SEVEN-
TEEN, AND EVERY YEAR THEREAFTER, THE COMMISSIONER SHALL PROVIDE AN ANNU-
AL  REPORT  TO THE TEMPORARY PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE, THE SPEAKER OF THE
ASSEMBLY, THE MINORITY LEADER OF THE SENATE, THE MINORITY LEADER OF  THE
ASSEMBLY  AND  THE  CHAIRS  OF  THE  SENATE  CRIME  VICTIMS,  CRIME  AND
CORRECTION AND ASSEMBLY CORRECTION COMMITTEES ON INMATE MORTALITY INVES-
TIGATIONS CONDUCTED BY THE DEPARTMENT. SUCH REPORT  SHALL  INCLUDE,  BUT
NOT  BE  LIMITED  TO:  FACTORS  SUCH AS CAUSE OF DEATH AND CIRCUMSTANCES
SURROUNDING DEATH, AGE OF INMATE, SENTENCE AND TIME SERVED, GENDER, RACE
AND ETHNICITY OF INMATE, COMMITMENT OFFENSE, FACILITY AND TIME SERVED IN
FACILITY IN WHICH DEATH OCCURRED, LOCATION OF DEATH WITHIN THE  FACILITY
OR OUTSIDE HOSPITAL AND A STATEMENT AS TO WHETHER OR NOT SUCH INMATE WAS
IN  RECEIPT OF SPECIALIZED CARE OR TREATMENT OR IN DISCIPLINARY CONFINE-
MENT, WHETHER SUCH INMATE WAS RETRIEVED BY NEXT  OF  KIN  OR  BURIED  ON
PRISON  GROUNDS,  AND  ANY  OTHER SUCH DATA AS THE DEPARTMENT SHALL DEEM
RELEVANT. SUCH REPORT SHALL INCLUDE AN ANALYSIS OF ANY  APPARENT  TRENDS
AND  COMPARISON  TO HISTORIC STATISTICAL DATA RELATING TO INMATE MORTAL-
ITY.
  B. FOR ALL DEATHS THAT RESULT FROM  SUICIDE  OR  OTHER  CATEGORIES  OF
INMATE  DEATH  A  DETAILED  PRELIMINARY  REPORT SHALL BE PROVIDED TO THE

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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A. 7822--A                          2

RECIPIENTS OF THE ANNUAL REPORT LISTED IN THIS SECTION WITHIN SEVEN DAYS
THAT SPECIFIES THE NAME OF THE INMATE AND THE CIRCUMSTANCES  OF  HIS  OR
HER  DEATH, THE STATUS OF THE INVESTIGATION INTO SUCH DEATH, AND WHETHER
ANY  OTHER INMATES, STAFF OR OFFICERS INVOLVED IN THE CIRCUMSTANCES THAT
RESULTED IN THE DEATH OF THE INMATE WERE INJURED, SERIOUSLY  INJURED  OR
SEVERELY INJURED REQUIRING OUTSIDE HOSPITALIZATION, OR IF ANY OTHER SUCH
PERSON  HAS  BEEN  SUSPENDED, DETAINED OR REFERRED FOR PROSECUTION. UPON
COMPLETION OF ITS INVESTIGATION  THE  DEPARTMENT  SHALL  ISSUE  A  FINAL
REPORT TO SUCH RECIPIENTS.
  S 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
it shall have become a law.