Directs the commissioner of corrections and community supervision to establish procedures to allow an incarcerated individual in a correctional facility which has suspended visiting privileges to have private meetings with their legal counsel.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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8182
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
May 19, 2025
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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 providing for access
to legal counsel when a correctional facility has suspended visiting
privileges
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 112 of the correction law is amended by adding a
2 new subdivision 7 to read as follows:
3 7. The commissioner shall establish procedures to allow an incarcerat-
4 ed individual in a correctional facility which has suspended visiting
5 privileges to have private meetings with their legal counsel. Such
6 private meetings may be held in-person, via telephone, or electron-
7 ically.
8 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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