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A00303 Summary:

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Establishes the New York state commission to end mass incarceration and to prevent violence; provides such commission shall investigate, evaluate and make recommendations concerning how to reduce the New York prison population, incidences of violent crime in New York state, and other various topics related to the criminal justice system.

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BILL NOA00303 

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01/08/2025referred to correction

01/07/2026referred to correction

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 303

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 (Prefiled)

 January 8, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by M. of A. WEPRIN -- read once and referred to the Committee
 on Correction

 AN ACT establishing the New York state commission to end mass incarcera-
 tion and to prevent violence

 The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
 bly, do enact as follows:

 1 Section 1. Legislative intent. The United States has the largest pris-
 2 on population in the world as well as the highest per-capita incarcera-
 3 tion rate. In the United States, the crime rate is not much higher
 4 compared to that in Western Europe. However, the incarceration rate is
 5 three or four times higher even though the crime rate is lower than at
 6 any time since the mid-1960s, and the United States has incarcerated
 7 seven times as many people since that time while making up about five
 8 percent of the world's population, and has nearly twenty-one percent of
 9 the world's prisoners. African Americans are incarcerated at more than
 10 five times the rate of whites. The imprisonment rate of African Ameri-
 11 cans for drug charges is almost six times that of whites even while
 12 African Americans and whites use drugs at similar rates, and if African
 13 Americans and Hispanics were incarcerated at the same rates as whites,
 14 prison and jail populations would be reduced by almost forty percent. It
 15 shall be the policy of the state of New York to end mass incarceration
 16 and to deter violent crime for the purpose of justice and public safety.
 17 § 2. A temporary state commission, to be known as the New York state
 18 commission to end mass incarceration and to prevent violence, is hereby
 19 created to investigate, evaluate and make recommendations concerning how
 20 to reduce the New York prison population and the incidences of violent
 21 crime in New York state.
 22 § 3. (a) The commission shall consist of seventeen members, to be
 23 appointed as follows: nine members to be appointed by the governor, one
 24 of whom shall be the chair; three members to be appointed by the tempo-

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD01178-01-5

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 1 rary president of the senate; one member appointed by the senate minori-
 2 ty leader; three members appointed by the speaker of the assembly; and
 3 one member appointed by the assembly minority leader.
 4 (b) The members of the commission shall receive no compensation for
 5 their services, but shall be allowed their actual and necessary expenses
 6 incurred in the performance of their duties under this act. The commis-
 7 sion may employ and at pleasure remove such personnel as it may deem
 8 necessary for the performance of its functions and fix their compen-
 9 sation within the amounts made available by appropriation therefor.
 10 § 4. Specifically the commission shall investigate:
 11 (a) how to reduce the New York prison population based on fairness and
 12 justice by exploring various topics, including, but not limited to:
 13 (1) operations of the criminal justice system;
 14 (2) the impact of the war on drugs;
 15 (3) racial inequities throughout the state of New York criminal
 16 justice system;
 17 (4) the impact of economic and social inequalities;
 18 (5) reduced mandatory sentences and sentencing reform generally;
 19 (6) more sentencing flexibility for judges;
 20 (7) reducing the post-release impact