Requires institutions and local correctional facilities to adhere to certain standards regarding the surveillance of incarcerated individuals and detainees, and access to such surveillance recordings.
Relates to the definition of "direct relationship" for the purposes of article 23-A of the correction law regarding licensures and employment of persons previously convicted of one or more criminal offenses.
Requires incarcerated individual sexual harassment complaints made against department employees to be investigated by the attorney general; makes the findings and recommendations of the attorney general final and binding on the part of the department.
Relates to parole eligibility for crimes committed at age twenty-one or younger; provides if such individual is convicted of a crime prior to their twenty-second birthday for which they were sentenced to a period of incarceration greater than 20 years, they shall be eligible for parole after fifteen years of incarceration.
Establishes the reentry assistance program; provides for eligible incarcerated individuals to receive a monthly stipend upon release from a state correctional facility; makes an appropriation of $25,000,000.
Requires the state to pay for the delivery of the body of a deceased incarcerated individual to their next of kin when such incarcerated individual dies in the custody of the department of corrections and community supervision.