What's happening
This bill requires parole violators to be transferred to state custody or reimburses counties for detention costs after ten business days, with exceptions for large cities or court extensions.
Why it matters
Shifts financial responsibility for parole violator detention. By requiring the state to either transfer parole violators to state custody or reimburse counties for their detention costs after 10 business days, the bill aims to reduce the financial and logistical burden on local jails and county governments.
Addresses jail overcrowding and resource strain. Counties often face overcrowding and higher expenses when holding state parole violators for extended periods. This bill incentivizes the state to act more promptly, potentially improving jail conditions and local resource allocation.
Creates exceptions for large urban centers and court flexibility. The bill carves out exceptions for cities with over one million residents (e.g., New York City), recognizing their unique correctional infrastructure, and allows courts to extend local detention in 20-day increments, providing flexibility for complex cases or logistical delays.
Could impact parole violator processing times and reentry services. By putting a time limit on local detention, the bill may accelerate the movement of parole violators through the system, potentially affecting how quickly they access state-level correctional programs, hearings, or reentry planning.
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Move Parole Violators to State
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History
- Referred to crime victims, crime and correction
- Referred to crime victims, crime and correction
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STATE OF NEW YORK
830
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE (Prefiled)
January 8, 2025
Introduced by Sens. GALLIVAN, HELMING -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Crime Victims, Crime and 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 such person's 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 such person be committed to the custody of the commissioner.
2. The provisions of subdivision one of this section shall not apply in any city having a population of one million or more inhabitants, or 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 and completed on or before such date.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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Sponsor's memo
Title of bill
An act to amend the correction law, in relation to parole violators
Purpose
To require parole violators to be transferred to a state correctional facility after 10 business days in a local correctional facility.
Summary of provisions
Section 1 amends the Correction Law by adding a new section 23-a provid- ing that, except for in cities with a population over one million, after a period of ten business days in a local correctional facility those individuals in violation of their parole be heard by the court and either transferred to a state facility at a cost of the Department of Correctional and Community Supervision, granted an extension by the local court, or released by the local court.
Section 2 is the effective date.
Justification
When incarcerated persons are released on parole from state facilities, violators should be punished. Currently, those who violate their parole are often held at local facilities while appeals and extensions on hear- ing the violation are granted by the court. The defendant must appear before the court within 10 business days of the court's notice to appear. The time the violator spends in the local correctional facility is credited to their sentence and can last for the sentence's duration.
This bill will give the court the option to grant an extension up to 20 days for the defendant's stay at the local correctional facility. Under the current law, the parole violator is transferred by Department of Correctional and Community Supervision (DOCCS) to a state facility. This bill permits the parole violator to stay at the local correction facili- ty, but requires DOCCS to reimburse the local facility for the cost of the temporary detainment of the parole violator.
With overcrowding issues in local facilities at significant cost to the localities, it is important to implement policies that will require the state to be responsible for detaining violators of the parole they set. It is wrong for the localities to berthed cost of detaining the state's prisoners who have been released on parole.
History
2023-24: S.4485 Referred to Crime Victims, Crime and Correction
2021-22: S.2662 Referred to Crime Victims, Crime and Correction
2019-20: S.1368/A.3661 Referred to Crime Victims, Crime and Correction
Fiscal impact
Significant cost savings will be realized by the counties while the State Department of Correctional and Community Supervision will take on additional costs. Overall, more efficiency and cost savings will be realized as it is generally more expensive to house prisoners at county correctional facilities than at state facilities.
Effective date
This act shall take effect on the 120th day after it shall have become law.
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