Senate Bill S2698

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Relates to the establishment of an inmate visitation program

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Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Crime Victims, Crime And Correction Committee

  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2019-S2698 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A2483
Current Committee:
Senate Crime Victims, Crime And Correction
Law Section:
Correction Law
Laws Affected:
Add §138-b, Cor L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2017-2018: A7241
2021-2022: S2841, A4250
2023-2024: S3318, A6488

2019-S2698 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to the establishment of an inmate visitation program, which gives inmates opportunities for personal contact with relatives, friends, clergy, volunteers and other persons to promote better institutional adjustment and better community adjustment upon release.

2019-S2698 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2019-S2698 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   2698
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 28, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by Sen. SEPULVEDA -- 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 the establishment  of
   an inmate visitation program
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. The correction law is amended by adding a new section 138-b
 to read as follows:
   § 138-B. INMATE  VISITATION  PROGRAM.  STATE  AND  LOCAL  CORRECTIONAL
 FACILITIES  SHALL  PROVIDE INMATE VISITATION PROGRAMS WHICH GIVE INMATES
 OPPORTUNITIES FOR PERSONAL  CONTACT  WITH  RELATIVES,  FRIENDS,  CLERGY,
 VOLUNTEERS  AND OTHER PERSONS TO PROMOTE BETTER INSTITUTIONAL ADJUSTMENT
 AND  BETTER  COMMUNITY  ADJUSTMENT  UPON  RELEASE.  SUCH  PROGRAM  SHALL
 INCLUDE,  BUT  NOT BE LIMITED TO, (A) VISITING HOURS THAT ARE REASONABLY
 LIKELY TO ACCOMMODATE PERSONS  TRAVELING  FROM  WITHIN  THE  STATE,  (B)
 VISITS  OF SUFFICIENT DURATION SO THAT VISITORS AND INMATES WILL BE ABLE
 TO MAINTAIN RELATIONSHIP BONDS, AND (C) A PUBLISHED OVERCROWDING  POLICY
 THAT IS EQUITABLE WITH DUE CONSIDERATION TO THE DISTANCE TRAVELED BY THE
 VISITOR.  VIDEO  VISITATION MAY SUPPLEMENT, BUT SHALL NOT TAKE THE PLACE
 OF, IN-PERSON VISITATION. NO INMATE IS TO BE VISITED AGAINST HIS OR  HER
 WILL BY ANY PERSON.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
 it shall have become a law.
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD08552-01-9

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