 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          10120
 
                   IN ASSEMBLY
 
                                     March 16, 2018
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced by M. of A. WEPRIN -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Correction
 
        AN ACT to amend the correction law, in relation to inmate wages
 
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
 
     1    Section 1. Section 187 of the correction law is amended  by  adding  a
     2  new subdivision 5 to read as follows:
     3    5.  Inmates  shall be compensated for all work and program assignments
     4  at a base rate of compensation of one dollar twenty cents to ten dollars
     5  per day and shall be given biannual raises for adequate  performance  in
     6  such  assignments.  An  inmate  working in a manufacturing or industrial
     7  assignment shall receive compensation of five to ten dollars per day for
     8  the duration of the time such inmate works in such assignment and  shall
     9  revert  to his or her previous rate of compensation once he or she is no
    10  longer working in such assignment.   Unless an inmate  is  leaving  such
    11  manufacturing  or  industrial  assignment,  his  or her compensation for
    12  performing his or her work or program assignment shall not be  decreased
    13  if  he  or she is transferred to a different facility or changes assign-
    14  ments within a facility. The department shall review and adjust the base
    15  rate of compensation of inmates every five  years  after  the  effective
    16  date  of this subdivision to adjust for cost of living increases. A cost
    17  of living adjustment shall be made if the  sum  of  the  annual  average
    18  changes  of the consumer price index for all urban consumers (CPI-U), as
    19  published annually by the United States department of  labor  bureau  of
    20  labor statistics, is ten percent or greater upon review. Inmates who are
    21  not  able  to  work  or  participate  in  programs because of a medical,
    22  mental, cognitive, developmental or physical impairment or condition  or
    23  who are over the age of sixty and not participating in a work or program
    24  assignment because of age-related infirmity or frailty shall be paid one
    25  dollar per day, adjusted every five years for cost of living.
    26    §  2. This act shall take effect one year after it shall have become a
    27  law.
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD15071-01-8
Relates to inmate wages

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