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                                   5516
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               March 9, 2021
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 Introduced  by  Sen.  COMRIE -- 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 an annual report of
   department 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 TWEN-
 TY-TWO, AND EVERY YEAR THEREAFTER, THE  COMMISSIONER  SHALL  PROVIDE  AN
 ANNUAL  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
 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
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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 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.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
 it shall have become a law.