Bill Text: NY A02483 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: 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.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 17-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2020-01-08 - REFERRED TO CRIME VICTIMS, CRIME AND CORRECTION [A02483 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A02483-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          2483
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 22, 2019
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        Introduced by M. of A. WEPRIN, WALKER, DE LA ROSA, BLAKE, MOSLEY, BARRON
          -- read once and referred to the Committee on 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:
     1    Section 1. The correction law is amended by adding a new section 138-b
     2  to read as follows:
     3    §  138-b.  Inmate  visitation  program.  State  and local correctional
     4  facilities shall provide inmate visitation programs which  give  inmates
     5  opportunities  for  personal  contact  with  relatives, friends, clergy,
     6  volunteers and other persons to promote better institutional  adjustment
     7  and  better  community  adjustment  upon  release.  Such  program  shall
     8  include, but not be limited to, (a) visiting hours that  are  reasonably
     9  likely  to  accommodate  persons  traveling  from  within the state, (b)
    10  visits of sufficient duration so that visitors and inmates will be  able
    11  to  maintain relationship bonds, and (c) a published overcrowding policy
    12  that is equitable with due consideration to the distance traveled by the
    13  visitor. Video visitation may supplement, but shall not take  the  place
    14  of,  in-person visitation. No inmate is to be visited against his or her
    15  will by any person.
    16    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
    17  it shall have become a law.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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