S10502 (2025-26 session)
NY State bill
Expands access to higher education in correctional facilities by requiring the department of corrections and community supervision to provide meaningful access to postsecondary educational programming and to establish a transparent process for incarcerated individuals to request transfers to facilities where such programs are available.
- Title
- Establishes access to postsecondary educational programming and creating an educational transfer process for incarcerated individuals
- Type
- New York State Senate bill
- Session
- 2025-26 session
- Status
- In Senate Committee
- Latest action date
- 2026-05-15
- In committee
- Crime Victims, Crime And Correction
- Introduced
- 2026-05-15
- Law section
- Correction Law
Sponsors
- Erik Bottcher State Senator, District 47
Heard in committee
- Crime Victims, Crime And Correction NY State Senate committee