STATE OF NEW YORK
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1850
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 16, 2019
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Introduced by Sen. SEPULVEDA -- 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 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, placement in a segregated confinement
5 unit for administrative purposes, or placement in a residential mental
6 health treatment unit, and at weekly intervals thereafter for the dura-
7 tion of such confinement, an inmate shall be permitted to make at least
8 one personal phone call, except when to do so would create an unaccepta-
9 ble risk to the safety and security of inmates or staff.
10 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD00815-02-9
