What's happening
This bill requires that female inmates in New York state prisons receive rehabilitation programs equivalent to those provided to male inmates.
Why it matters
Addresses gender equity in rehabilitation. By requiring equivalent vocational, academic, and industrial programs for women, the bill targets historic disparities in prison programming that can affect post-release success and opportunities.
Impacts reentry outcomes. Ensuring female inmates have access to the same quality and variety of programs as men could improve their job readiness, educational attainment, and reduce recidivism rates upon release.
Mandates accountability from prison leadership. The bill puts the responsibility on wardens and facility administrators to deliver these equivalent programs, which may prompt changes in institutional priorities and resource allocation.
May require new funding or redistribution of resources. Although limited to available appropriations, the bill could lead to increased funding requests or shifting of existing resources to comply with its requirements, potentially affecting other areas of the correctional system.
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Who cares
Women in state correctional facilities
The bill would require rehabilitation programs equivalent to those offered to male inmates elsewhere in the state, including vocational, academic and industrial programs.
Wardens and chief administrative officers
They would be responsible for ensuring equivalent rehabilitation programs for women within the funding appropriated for those programs.
Commissioner of Corrections and Community Supervision
The bill would authorize the commissioner to issue rules and take other measures needed to implement the requirements by the effective date.
Headline styles
Equal Rehab for Women Inmates
Plain English, a few words. Used as the page title.
Sponsors
Assembly Member · Assembly District 25
3 Co-sponsors
History
- Substituted by S3498
- Ordered to third reading rules cal.75
- Rules report cal.75
- Reported
- Reported referred to rules
- Reported referred to ways and means
- Referred to correction
Companion bill
The same bill in the other chamber. A bill becomes law when one version passes both houses and the governor signs it, so either number can carry it.
Equal Rehab for Female Inmates
Signed by Governor · Sponsor Jamaal Bailey
Full text
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STATE OF NEW YORK
2534
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 20, 2017
Introduced by M. of A. ROZIC -- read once and referred to the Committee on Correction
AN ACT to amend the correction law, in relation to assuring rehabilitation programs for female inmates are equivalent to programs afforded male inmates
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. The correction law is amended by adding a new section 114 to read as follows:
§ 114. Rehabilitation programs for women; to be commensurate to those afforded men. In any state correctional facility in which women are detained it shall be the duty of the warden or the chief administrative officer of such facility to assure that such women be provided equivalent programs of rehabilitation, including but not limited to vocational, academic and industrial programs, within the appropriation made therefor, as are provided to male inmates of correctional facilities elsewhere in the state.
§ 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall have become a law; provided that the commissioner of corrections and community supervision is authorized to promulgate any and all rules and regulations and take any other measures necessary to implement the provisions of this act on its effective date on or before such effective date.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD05038-01-7
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