Requires the commissioner of corrections and community supervision to permanently terminate the conjugal visit program, commonly known as the family reunion program; directs such commissioner to prohibit the establishment of any program designed to provide selected inmates and their families the opportunity to privately meet for an extended period of time.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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3611
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 29, 2025
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Introduced by Sen. 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 the commissioner of
the department of corrections and community supervision's power to
permanently terminate the conjugal visit program, referred to as the
family reunion program
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 146 of the correction law is amended by adding a
2 new subdivision 4 to read as follows:
3 4. The commissioner shall permanently terminate the conjugal visit
4 program referred to as the family reunion program set forth in part two
5 hundred twenty of title seven of the New York code, rules and regu-
6 lations. Such commissioner shall further prohibit the establishment of
7 any program designed to provide selected inmates and their families the
8 opportunity to meet privately for an extended period of time.
9 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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