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Senate sentencing committee discusses bill to make prison educational credits transferable and hears proposal for elderly-inmate study
Summary
Members of the Senate sentencing committee discussed S.4379, a bill to make incarcerated individuals' educational and vocational credits transferable, and reviewed a proposed study to profile elderly inmates; no formal votes were recorded during the exchange.
At a meeting of the Senate sentencing committee, members discussed a bill to amend the Correction Law to require that educational and vocational credits earned by incarcerated individuals be transferable and considered a proposed study to profile the state's elderly inmate population. The session included readings of bill text and questioning by committee members; no formal floor votes were recorded in the transcript.
The bill identified in the transcript as "S 43 79" (read aloud by a staff member) was presented as "an act to amend the correction law in relation to requiring the educational and vocational credits earned by incarcerated individuals [to be] transferable upon use." The…
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