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A7016Assembly2017-2018 SessionSame asS5693

Free Prison Visit Transportation

Official title

“Relates to available transportation for correction facility visitation”

Sponsor Carmen De La RosaAD-72+24 co-sponsorsAffects Public Safety & Consumer Affairs
Status
Assembly Floor Calendar
Impact
7/10
Significant
Passage
0%

Bill progress

Step 3 of 7

Floor calendar · Mar 28

What's happening

This bill requires the Department of Corrections to provide free, regular transportation for visitors to correctional facilities from major cities.

Why it matters

  1. Enhances family and community connections for incarcerated individuals. by making it easier and more affordable for loved ones to visit, which research shows can improve rehabilitation outcomes and reduce recidivism.

  2. Reduces the financial and logistical burdens. on families—especially those from low-income backgrounds or living far from prisons—by eliminating transportation costs and providing regular, predictable schedules.

  3. Addresses disparities in prison visitation. since many New York State prisons are located far from major cities (where many inmates’ families reside), thus helping to level the playing field for all families regardless of geographic or economic status.

  4. Increases transparency and accessibility. by requiring clear public communication about transportation options, both online and via telephone, and ensures inmates are informed of these services upon entering or transferring facilities.

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Who cares

  • Correctional facility visitors

    The bill would require free transportation from New York City, Rochester, Syracuse and Albany to correctional facilities selected by the commissioner, on a regular basis no less than bimonthly.

  • Department of Corrections and Community Supervision

    The department would have to provide the transportation and make service information available on its public website and designated telephone line.

  • Incarcerated people

    The bill would require notice of available visitor transportation when they enter the system and when they transfer to a new correctional facility.

Headline styles

Free Prison Visit Transportation

Plain English, a few words. Used as the page title.

Sponsors

Primary sponsor
Carmen De La Rosa

Assembly Member · Assembly District 72

1 Multi-sponsor

History

  1. Amended on third reading 7016a
  2. Ordered to third reading cal.493
  3. Advanced to third reading cal.359
  4. Reported
  5. Reported referred to ways and means
  6. 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.

S5693Senate

Free Prison Visit Transportation

In Senate Committee · Crime Victims, Crime And Correction · Sponsor Velmanette Montgomery

Impact 7 · Significant0% to pass

Full text

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STATE OF NEW YORK

7016--A Cal. No. 493

2017-2018 Regular Sessions

IN ASSEMBLY

March 29, 2017

Introduced by M. of A. DE LA ROSA, WEPRIN, SEPULVEDA, DICKENS, ORTIZ, MOSLEY, NIOU, BARRON, RICHARDSON, RIVERA, DAVILA, WALKER, ROZIC, BLAKE, D'URSO, BICHOTTE, HARRIS, CRESPO, PEOPLES-STOKES, SIMON, COOK, GOTTFRIED, COLTON, JOYNER, HYNDMAN, JEAN-PIERRE -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. WRIGHT -- read once and referred to the Committee on Correction -- ordered to a third reading, amended and ordered reprinted, retaining its place on the order of third reading

AN ACT to amend the correction law, in relation to available transportation for correction facility visitation

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 138-b to read as follow:

§ 138-b. Visitor transportation. In conjunction with the inmate visiting program, the department shall provide transportation for visitors to correctional facilities on a regular basis, but no less than bimonthly, at no cost to visitors. Transportation shall be provided from the city of New York, Rochester, Syracuse and Albany to correctional facilities, as determined by the commissioner. Information concerning transportation shall be posted on the department's public website, and shall be available from the telephone number designated, pursuant to section one hundred thirty-eight-a of this article. Notice of available transportation shall be provided to inmates upon reception and upon transfer to a new correctional facility.

§ 2. This act shall take effect one year after it shall have become a law.

EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets

[ ] is old law to be omitted.

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