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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3817
2015-2016 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
February 18, 2015
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Introduced by Sen. HASSELL-THOMPSON -- 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 assuring rehabili-
tation programs for female inmates are 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; to be commensurate to those
4 afforded men. In any state correctional facility in which women are
5 detained it shall be the duty of the warden or the chief administrative
6 officer of such facility to assure that such women be provided equiv-
7 alent programs of rehabilitation, including but not limited to voca-
8 tional, academic and industrial programs, within the appropriation made
9 therefor, as are provided to male inmates of correctional facilities
10 elsewhere in the state.
11 § 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
12 have become a law; provided that the commissioner of corrections and
13 community supervision is authorized to promulgate any and all rules and
14 regulations and take any other measures necessary to implement the
15 provisions of this act on its effective date on or before such effective
16 date.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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