STATE OF NEW YORK
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4061
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
February 2, 2017
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Introduced by Sen. LANZA -- 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 confinement of
inmates under the age of eighteen
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The opening paragraph of subdivision 6 of section 137 of
2 the correction law, as amended by chapter 1 of the laws of 2008, is
3 amended to read as follows:
4 Except as provided in paragraphs (d) and (e) of this subdivision, the
5 superintendent of a correctional facility may keep any inmate, other
6 than inmates under the age of eighteen years who shall not be placed in
7 segregated confinement for any reason, confined in a cell or room, apart
8 from the accommodations provided for inmates who are participating in
9 programs of the facility, for such period as may be necessary for main-
10 tenance of order or discipline, but in any such case the following
11 conditions shall be observed:
12 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD06817-01-7
