Bill Text: NY S05563 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Senate Bill 5563 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Allows inmates to make confidential phone calls to legal services providers or attorneys within the state at no charge to the inmate or the attorney.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - REFERRED TO CRIME VICTIMS, CRIME AND CORRECTION [S05563 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S05563-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          5563
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                       May 7, 2019
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  Sen.  MONTGOMERY  -- 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 inmate access to
          confidential phone calls
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  Section  623 of the correction law is amended by adding a
     2  new subdivision 5 to read as follows:
     3    5. In order to provide unimpeded access to the courts, all inmates  in
     4  state  and local correctional facilities shall be permitted confidential
     5  telephone calls with legal service providers  or  any  attorney  in  the
     6  state  without  charge  to the inmate or the attorney. No such telephone
     7  call may be recorded,  monitored  or  unreasonably  restricted  by  such
     8  correctional  facility, the department or any other entity entering into
     9  a contract to provide inmate telephone services, however, such telephone
    10  call may be  subject  to  restrictions  and  recordings  by  such  legal
    11  services provider or attorney.
    12    §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
    13  have become a law.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD11317-01-9