What's happening
This bill requires all general confinement correctional facilities in New York to offer visitation seven days a week.
Why it matters
Expands opportunities for incarcerated individuals to maintain family and community connections. , which research shows can reduce recidivism and improve post-release outcomes.
May require significant operational changes and increased staffing for correctional facilities. , potentially impacting budgets, scheduling, and facility management.
Could improve the well-being and mental health of both incarcerated individuals and their families. by providing more flexible and frequent visitation options.
Signals a shift toward prioritizing rehabilitation and humane treatment within New York’s correctional system. , aligning with broader criminal justice reform efforts.
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Who cares
People incarcerated in general confinement correctional facilities
The bill would require their facilities to offer visitation seven days a week.
Families and other visitors of incarcerated people
The bill would make visitation available every day of the week at all general confinement correctional facilities.
State correctional administrators and facility staff
They would need to provide daily visitation at these facilities beginning one year after the bill becomes law.
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Allow Daily Prison Visits
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History
- Referred to ways and means
- 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.
Allow Daily Prison Visits
In Senate Committee · Crime Victims, Crime And Correction · Sponsor Luis R. Sepúlveda
Full text
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STATE OF NEW YORK
4338
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 4, 2019
Introduced by M. of A. WEPRIN, COLTON, MOSLEY -- read once and referred to the Committee on Correction
AN ACT to amend the correction law, in relation to authorizing daily visitation at general confinement correctional facilities
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 follows:
§ 138-b. Daily visitation. Visitation shall be offered seven days a week at all general confinement correctional facilities.
§ 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.
LBD08583-01-9
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