A11071 • 2025

Relates to residential rehabilitation units in correctional facilities

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Sponsor: Michael Cashman
Last action: 2026-04-24
Official status: In Assembly Committee
Effective date: Not listed

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Relates to residential rehabilitation units in correctional facilities

Relates to residential rehabilitation units in correctional facilities Prohibits the department of corrections from placing incarcerated individuals in two-person cells in residential rehabilitation units unless such incarcerated individuals agree.

What This Bill Does

Relates to residential rehabilitation units in correctional facilities Prohibits the department of corrections from placing incarcerated individuals in two-person cells in residential rehabilitation units unless such incarcerated individuals agree.

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Bill History

2026-04-24 Assembly
REFERRED TO CORRECTION

Official Summary Text

Relates to residential rehabilitation units in correctional facilities
Prohibits the department of corrections from placing incarcerated individuals in two-person cells in residential rehabilitation units unless such incarcerated individuals agree.

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S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                          11071

                                  I N  A S S E M B L Y

                                     April 24, 2026
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by M. of A. CASHMAN -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Correction

        AN ACT to amend the correction law, in relation to residential rehabili-
          tation units in correctional facilities

          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 608
     2  to read as follows:
     3    § 608. PROHIBITION OF TWO-PERSON CELLS IN CERTAIN HOUSING  SITUATIONS.
     4  1.  FOR  PURPOSES  OF  THIS SECTION, "TWO-PERSON CELLS" SHALL MEAN CELLS
     5  UTILIZED BY THE DEPARTMENT TO  HOUSE  TWO  INCARCERATED  INDIVIDUALS  IN
     6  RESIDENTIAL REHABILITATION UNITS AT THE SAME TIME.
     7    2.  THE DEPARTMENT SHALL BE PROHIBITED FROM UTILIZING TWO-PERSON CELLS
     8  IN ANY RESIDENTIAL REHABILITATION UNIT, UNLESS AN INCARCERATED  INDIVID-
     9  UAL  SUBJECT  TO A RESIDENTIAL REHABILITATION UNIT CELL PROVIDES EXPRESS
    10  AGREEMENT TO RESIDE IN SUCH A UNIT WITH ANOTHER INCARCERATED INDIVIDUAL.
    11  ANY INCARCERATED INDIVIDUAL RESIDING IN A TWO-PERSON CELL IN A  RESIDEN-
    12  TIAL  REHABILITATION UNIT AT THE TIME THIS SECTION TAKES EFFECT WHO DOES
    13  NOT PROVIDE SUCH EXPRESS AGREEMENT, SHALL BE IMMEDIATELY RELOCATED TO  A
    14  SINGLE CELL ENVIRONMENT WITHIN THE RESIDENTIAL REHABILITATION UNIT.
    15    3.  THE  DEPARTMENT  SHALL  BE  AUTHORIZED TO PROMULGATE OR REPEAL ANY
    16  RULES OR REGULATIONS NECESSARY TO FACILITATE THE IMPLEMENTATION  OF  THE
    17  PROVISIONS OF THIS SECTION.
    18    §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
    19  have become a law.




         EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD15435-01-6