STATE OF NEW YORK
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1334
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 14, 2019
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Introduced by Sens. GALLIVAN, AKSHAR, GRIFFO, 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 prohibition of
double-bunked housing in correctional facilities
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 607
2 to read as follows:
3 § 607. Prohibition of double-bunked housing. 1. For purposes of this
4 section "double-bunked housing" shall mean the practice of inmate hous-
5 ing where bunk beds are used in a dormitory setting, with inmates resid-
6 ing in an open space and sleeping on bunk beds.
7 2. Upon the effective date of this section, the department is prohib-
8 ited from housing inmates using double-bunked housing practices in
9 correctional facilities. Any inmates housed in such double-bunked hous-
10 ing on the effective date of this section shall be moved to other hous-
11 ing accommodations provided that such accommodations are not located in
12 a more restrictive housing unit or correctional facility unless other-
13 wise appropriate.
14 3. The department is authorized to promulgate or repeal any rules and
15 regulations necessary to facilitate the implementation of this section.
16 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
17 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD02991-01-9
