Prohibits the placement in segregated confinement of any person in the first eight weeks of the post-partum recovery period regardless of pregnancy outcome by amending the definition of special populations to include such persons.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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6247
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
April 3, 2023
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Introduced by M. of A. AUBRY -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Correction
AN ACT to amend the correction law, in relation to amending the defi-
nition of special populations to include persons who are in the first
eight weeks of the post-partum recovery period regardless of pregnancy
outcome
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 33 of section 2 of the correction law, as added
2 by chapter 93 of the laws of 2021, is amended to read as follows:
3 33. "Special populations" means any person: (a) twenty-one years of
4 age or younger; (b) fifty-five years of age or older; (c) with a disa-
5 bility as defined in paragraph (a) of subdivision twenty-one of section
6 two hundred ninety-two of the executive law; or (d) who is pregnant, in
7 the first eight weeks of the post-partum recovery period [after giving
8 birth] regardless of how the pregnancy ended, or caring for a child in a
9 correctional institution pursuant to subdivisions two or three of
10 section six hundred eleven of this chapter.
11 § 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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