STATE OF NEW YORK
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1208
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 11, 2017
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Introduced by M. of A. ROZIC, BARRON, BLAKE, GOTTFRIED, JAFFEE, MOSLEY,
O'DONNELL, PICHARDO, QUART, STIRPE -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A.
COLTON, COOK, CRESPO, DAVILA, LUPARDO, PERRY, RIVERA, SIMON -- read
once and referred to the Committee on Correction
AN ACT to amend the correction law, in relation to personal phone calls
for inmates in certain circumstances
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 6 of section 137 of the correction law is
2 amended by adding a new paragraph (g) to read as follows:
3 (g) Within twenty-four hours of disciplinary confinement, keeplock
4 pending a disciplinary hearing, or placement in a segregated confinement
5 unit for administrative purposes, and at monthly intervals thereafter
6 for the duration of such confinement, an inmate shall be permitted to
7 make at least one personal phone call, except when to do so would create
8 an unacceptable risk to the safety and security of inmates or staff.
9 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD01165-01-7
