Bill > A02483

This bill establishes an inmate visitation program in state and local correctional facilities, which provides inmates with opportunities for personal contact with relatives, friends, clergy, volunteers, and other persons. The program aims to promote better institutional adjustment and better community adjustment upon release. The key provisions include reasonable visiting hours, visits of sufficient duration to maintain relationship bonds, and a published overcrowding policy that considers the distance traveled by visitors. The bill also specifies that video visitation can supplement, but not replace, in-person visitation, and that no inmate is to be visited against their will.