§ 401. Establishment of programs inside correctional facilities. 1. The commissioner, in cooperation with the commissioner of mental health, shall establish programs, including but not limited to residential mental health treatment units, in such correctional facilities as he or she may deem appropriate for the treatment of mentally ill incarcerated individuals confined in state correctional […]
§ 401-a. Oversight responsibilities of the justice center for the protection of people with special needs. 1. The justice center for the protection of people with special needs shall be responsible for monitoring the quality of mental health care provided to incarcerated individuals pursuant to article twenty of the executive law. The justice center shall […]
§ 402. Commitment of incarcerated individuals with a mental illness. 1. Whenever the physician of any correctional facility, any county penitentiary, county jail or workhouse, any reformatory for women, or of any other correctional institution, shall report in writing to the superintendent that any person undergoing a sentence of imprisonment or adjudicated to be a […]
§ 403. Department or superintendent to provide certain records. The department or superintendent shall furnish to the department of mental hygiene a copy of the health and psychiatric records and a sentence calculation for each incarcerated individual placed in a hospital. The sentence calculation shall include the maximum expiration date and tentative conditional release date […]
§ 404. Disposition of mentally ill incarcerated individuals upon release to parole, conditional release, or expiration of sentence. 1. Whenever an incarcerated individual committed to a hospital in the department of mental hygiene or whenever an incarcerated individual is examined in anticipation of his or her conditional release, release to parole supervision, or when his […]
§ 405. Duty of the department to the director of a hospital. The department shall notify the director of a hospital in advance of hearings to be held at such hospital as may be necessary to carry out the duties of the board of parole or the department. The department shall assist the department of […]
