New York A 1573: Establishes a pilot project for the placement of incarcerated individuals close to home

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A01573 Summary:

BILL NOA01573 

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SAME ASNo Same As

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SPONSORWeprin (MS)

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COSPNSRHyndman

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MLTSPNSRCook

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Add §72-d, Cor L

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Establishes a pilot project for placement of incarcerated individuals close to home; provides that such project would house incarcerated individuals who are parents of minor children in the correctional facility located in closest proximity to the primary place of residence of any such incarcerated individual's minor child or children.

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BILL NOA01573 

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01/10/2025referred to correction

01/07/2026referred to correction

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 1573

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 January 10, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by M. of A. WEPRIN, HYNDMAN -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A.
 COOK -- read once and referred to the Committee on Correction

 AN ACT to amend the correction law, in relation to establishing the
 pilot project for the placement of incarcerated individuals close to
 home; and providing for the repeal of such provisions upon expiration
 thereof

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

 1 Section 1. Short title. This act shall be known and may be cited as
 2 the "pilot project for the placement of incarcerated individuals close
 3 to home".
 4 § 2. Legislative intent. The legislature hereby finds and declares
 5 that research shows incarcerated individuals who maintain family ties
 6 during incarceration have lower rates of recidivism than incarcerated
 7 individuals who do not. Further, most incarcerated individuals are
 8 parents, and more than 80,000 children in the state of New York have a
 9 parent incarcerated in the state prison system.
 10 The legislature further finds that the department of corrections and
 11 community supervision should consider proximity to minor children among
 12 the key criteria of security and health and program needs when determin-
 13 ing prison assignments and transfers of parents, and should support
 14 increased access of children to their incarcerated parents through the
 15 use of technology and programs currently available within the depart-
 16 ment.
 17 The legislature therefore declares that there is a need to develop
 18 classification criteria that would place incarcerated individuals in
 19 proximity to their family members and home communities, and in partic-
 20 ular for those incarcerated individuals who are parents of minor chil-
 21 dren in the appropriate correctional facility located closest to those
 22 children provided such placement is otherwise appropriate and suitable,

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD03730-01-5

 A. 1573 2

 1 and would facilitate increased contact between such incarcerated indi-
 2 vidual and such incarcerated individual's child or children.
 3 § 3. The correction law is amended by adding a new section 72-d to
 4 read as follows:
 5 § 72-d. Pilot project for the placement of incarcerated individuals
 6 close to home. 1. The commissioner shall establish a pilot program for
 7 the purpose of housing incarcerated individuals who are parents of minor
 8 children in the correctional facility which is located in closest prox-
 9 imity to the primary place of residence of any such incarcerated indi-
 10 viduals minor child or children under eighteen years of age, provided
 11 that such placement is otherwise suitable and appropriate pursuant to
 12 the regulations of the department and would facilitate increased contact
 13 between such incarcerated individual and such incarcerated individual's
 14 child or children. For purposes of this pilot program, incarcerated
 15 individuals who are parents of minor children on a voluntary basis,
 16 would request placement in the pilot program. In selecting such incar-
 17 cerated individual the department shall consult with the office of chil-
 18 dren and family services and the local district of social services
 19 located in the county where such incarcerated indivi