Requires that rehabilitation programs for female inmates in state correctional facilities be equivalent to those provided to male inmates of correctional facilities elsewhere in the state; provides that such rehabilitation programs shall include, but not be limited to, vocational, academic and industrial programs.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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8222
2015-2016 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
June 12, 2015
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Introduced by M. of A. ROSENTHAL -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Correction
AN ACT to amend the correction law, in relation to assuring rehabili-
tation programs for female inmates equivalent to programs afforded
male inmates
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The correction law is amended by adding a new section 114
2 to read as follows:
3 § 114. Rehabilitation programs for women. The department shall take
4 steps to ensure, to the greatest extent practicable within available
5 appropriations, that programs of rehabilitation, including but not
6 limited to vocational, academic and industrial programs, in all correc-
7 tional facilities in which women are detained are comparable to such
8 programs provided to male inmates and are designed to assist inmates to
9 obtain stable and gainful employment upon release.
10 § 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
11 have become a law; provided that the commissioner of corrections and
12 community supervision is authorized to promulgate any and all rules and
13 regulations and take any other measures necessary to implement the
14 provisions of this act on its effective date on or before such effective
15 date.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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