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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5037
2009-2010 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
April 27, 2009
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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 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 correctional
13 services is authorized to promulgate any and all rules and regulations
14 and take any other measures necessary to implement the provisions of
15 this act on its effective date on or before such effective date.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD06410-01-9
