A 1261 New York Assembly · 2025 Regular Session

Protects the rights of people in prisons, jails and forensic facilities

Summary

Protects the rights of people in prisons, jails and forensic facilities; limits the use of cell or segregated confinement; grants access to tablets, visitation, and certain items.

Issues: ✓ Criminal Justice

Bill status in committee 1 of 4 stages cleared

Introduction

Jan 2025

Committee Review

Floor Vote

Governor

Introduced Jan 9, 2025 Last action Jan 7, 2026

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What changed between versions

A1261 → A1261A · 3 edits

MINOR

The bill was amended to include a specific, recent incident of fatal police brutality (the death of Robert Brooks) as a primary example of human rights violations, replacing the previous list of studies with a more immediate factual account. Additionally, the bill was updated to reflect that the Correction Committee has discharged the bill and ordered it to be reprinted as amended, indicating it has moved past its initial review stage.

REQUIREMENT

Added a new paragraph detailing the specific fatal beating of Robert Brooks at Marcy Correctional Facility in December 2024 as a key example of systemic abuse.

TECHNICAL

Updated the list of supporting reports to reflect eighteen post-visit briefings issued through December 2024 instead of nine through December 2022.

Changed the bill status from 'referred to the Committee on Correction' to 'committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee'.

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Committee

Amendments

Jan 7, 2026

Committee

REFERRED TO CORRECTION

lower

Jan 29, 2025

Lower · Passed

PRINT NUMBER 1261A

lower

Jan 29, 2025

Lower · Passed

AMEND AND RECOMMIT TO CORRECTION

lower

Jan 9, 2025

Committee

REFERRED TO CORRECTION

lower

1 primary · 29 co-sponsors