Bill Text: NY A00664 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Restricts the segregated confinement of pregnant inmates to situations where there are exceptional circumstances which would create an unacceptable risk to other inmates or staff.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 41-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - referred to correction [A00664 Detail]
Download: New_York-2021-A00664-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 664 2021-2022 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY (Prefiled) January 6, 2021 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. ROZIC, ABINANTI, AUBRY, BARRETT, BARRON, BICHOTTE, COLTON, DINOWITZ, ENGLEBRIGHT, FAHY, GOTTFRIED, HEVESI, HUNTER, JOYNER, LUPARDO, O'DONNELL, PICHARDO, PEOPLES-STOKES, PERRY, QUART, L. ROSENTHAL, STECK, STIRPE, WALKER, DE LA ROSA, WEPRIN, HYND- MAN, JEAN-PIERRE, SEAWRIGHT, GRIFFIN -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. BRAUNSTEIN, COOK, DAVILA, EPSTEIN, GALEF, GLICK, SIMON -- read once and referred to the Committee on Correction AN ACT to amend the correction law, in relation to the segregated confinement of pregnant inmates The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The opening paragraph of subdivision 6 of section 137 of 2 the correction law, as amended by chapter 1 of the laws of 2008, is 3 amended to read as follows: 4 Except as provided in paragraphs (d) [and], (e), and (h) of this 5 subdivision, the superintendent of a correctional facility may keep any 6 inmate confined in a cell or room, apart from the accommodations 7 provided for inmates who are participating in programs of the facility, 8 for such period as may be necessary for maintenance of order or disci- 9 pline, but in any such case the following conditions shall be observed: 10 § 2. Subdivision 6 of section 137 of the correction law is amended by 11 adding a new paragraph (h) to read as follows: 12 (h) Segregated confinement is prohibited for pregnant inmates, inmates 13 who have given birth within the past eight weeks and inmate mothers 14 living with infants in prison nursery programs. 15 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD03316-01-1