What's happening
This bill requires New York correctional facilities to provide inmates with vocational training to install solar hot water systems where possible.
Why it matters
Expands inmate job training. By requiring vocational training in solar hot water system installation, the bill aims to give inmates practical, in-demand skills that could improve their employment prospects after release, potentially lowering recidivism.
Promotes green infrastructure in prisons. The mandate to install solar hot water systems where feasible not only improves living conditions for inmates (more reliable hot water) but also encourages state correctional facilities to adopt renewable energy solutions, reducing energy costs and environmental impact.
Links facility upgrades to rehabilitation goals. The bill ties infrastructure improvements (hot water plumbing) directly to inmate training programs, ensuring that facility enhancements also serve as hands-on learning opportunities, rather than just top-down renovations.
Prioritizes practicality and resource allocation. By including "where practicable," the bill acknowledges differences across facilities and avoids imposing unfunded or unworkable mandates, while still setting a clear policy direction for both inmate services and facility upgrades.
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Train Inmates to Install Solar
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Sponsors
Assembly Member · Assembly District 25
11 Co-sponsors
1 Multi-sponsor
History
- Referred to correction
- Referred to correction
Full text
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STATE OF NEW YORK
1256
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 11, 2017
Introduced by M. of A. ROZIC, BLAKE, CAHILL, COOK, DAVILA, GOTTFRIED, HOOPER, O'DONNELL, ORTIZ, RIVERA, SKARTADOS -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. GLICK -- read once and referred to the Committee on Correction
AN ACT to amend the correction law, in relation to providing vocational training to inmates on the installation of solar hot water systems for the provision of hot water to correctional facilities
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. Subdivision 4 of section 137 of the correction law, as added by chapter 476 of the laws of 1970, is amended to read as follows:
4. Whenever there shall be a sufficient number of cells or rooms in a correctional facility, each inmate shall be given sleeping accommodations in a separate cell or room, provided, however, that nothing herein contained shall be construed so as to limit the right of the department to utilize dormitory-type accommodations where necessary or where appropriate to a program of treatment. To the extent practicable, such cells, rooms and dormitories shall be plumbed to provide inmates hot water.
§ 2. Subdivision 2 of section 171 of the correction law, as amended by chapter 364 of the laws of 1983, is amended to read as follows:
2. Such labor shall be either for the purpose of the production of supplies for said institutions, or for the state, or any political subdivision thereof, or for any public institution owned or managed and controlled by the state, or any political subdivision thereof; or for the purpose of industrial training and instruction, or partly for one, and partly for the other of such purposes. Where practicable, inmates shall be provided vocational training to install solar hot water systems to provide hot water to cells, rooms and dormitories lacking in such amenity pursuant to subdivision four of section one hundred thirty-seven of this chapter.
§ 3. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after it shall have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD00425-01-7
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