What's happening
This bill requires the timely transfer or reimbursement for parole violators held in local jails, shifting related costs to the state.
Why it matters
Shifts financial responsibility for parole violators held in local jails from counties to the state. , potentially easing local budgets and reallocating costs to the Department of Corrections, which could have broader fiscal implications for state funding priorities.
Establishes a clear timeline (ten business days) for the state to either transfer parole violators to state custody or reimburse counties for continued local detention. , creating predictability and accountability in the management of parole violators.
Limits prolonged local detention of parole violators unless a court extension is granted. , which could help reduce jail overcrowding and the associated negative impacts on jail conditions, detainee rights, and local criminal justice systems.
May incentivize faster processing and resolution of parole violation cases. , potentially reducing the time individuals spend in legal limbo and ensuring more efficient handling of parole matters statewide.
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STATE OF NEW YORK
3828
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 31, 2019
Introduced by M. of A. ORTIZ -- read once and referred to the Committee on Correction
AN ACT to amend the correction law, in relation to parole violators
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 23-a to read as follows:
§ 23-a. Transfer of parole violators. 1. If any person presumptively released, paroled, conditionally released, released to post-release supervision, or received under the uniform act for out-of-state parolee supervision shall have been arrested for violating one or more conditions of his or her presumptive release, parole, conditional release or post-release supervision, such person, after ten business days in any local correctional facility, shall either be:
a. transferred to a state correctional facility, with the costs and responsibilities associated with such transfer borne by the department pursuant to section six hundred two of this chapter; or
b. kept in such local correctional facility, with the county's costs of such temporary detainment reimbursed by the department where such person has been convicted of a parole violation and a sentence has been pronounced which requires that he or she be committed to the custody of the commissioner.
2. The provisions of subdivision one of this section shall not apply if the appropriate court grants an extension authorizing the detainee to remain in the local correctional facility for up to twenty days per extension.
§ 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implementation of this act on its effective date are authorized to be made on or before such date.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD08186-01-9
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