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History
- Print number 5900a
- Amend and recommit to crime victims, crime and correction
- Referred to crime victims, crime and correction
- Referred to rules
Companion bill
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Relates to segregated confinement
Assembly Floor Calendar · Sponsor Daniel O'Donnell
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Title of bill
An act to amend the correction law, in relation to segregated confinement
Purpose
To adopt recommendations made by the United Nations Committee against Torture in the use of solitary confinement in New York prisons and jails.
Summary of provisions
Section 1 amends subdivision 23 to section 2 of the correction law.
Section 2 amends subdivision 6 of section 137 of the correction law.
Section 3 amends subdivision 3 of section 138 of the correction law.
Section 4 provides for an effective date.
Justification
In November 2014, the United Nations Committee against Torture issued observations and recommendations relating to the use of solitary confinement in American prisons. The bill adopts those recommendations by providing, among other changes, that inmates should only be kept in special housing units for the minimum period of time necessary to maintain institutional order and safety and by prohibiting the placement of juveniles, people with mental illness and developmentally disabled inmates in solitary confinement. New York should fully comply with international human rights standards in its jails and prisons.
Legislative history
This is a new bill.
Fiscal implications
None.
Local fiscal implications
None.
Effective date
This act shall take effect one hundred and eighty days after it shall have become law.
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