Establishes a temporary state commission to study local correctional facilities in upstate New York, focusing on medical and mental health care.

The bill creates a temporary state commission to study and make recommendations on local correctional facilities in upstate New York. The commission will emphasize medical and mental health care, overcrowding, incarcerated individual deaths, use of force, restraints, and all segregation and confinement practices, including solitary confinement. The commission will have unrestricted access to all local correctional facilities, conduct confidential interviews, and receive unredacted documents. It will issue periodic reports and hold public hearings in major upstate cities.

Establishes a temporary state commission to study local correctional facilities in upstate New York, focusing on medical and mental health care.

The bill creates a temporary state commission to study and make recommendations on local correctional facilities in upstate New York. The commission will emphasize medical and mental health care, overcrowding, incarcerated individual deaths, use of force, restraints, and all segregation and confinement practices, including solitary confinement. The commission will have unrestricted access to all local correctional facilities, conduct confidential interviews, and receive unredacted documents. It will issue periodic reports and hold public hearings in major upstate cities.