NY A10593

Redefines "segregated confinement" to mean disciplinary confinement in special housing units or separate keeplock housing units, removing the previous 17-hour threshold definition.

Removes references to "residential rehabilitation units" throughout the correction law and eliminates several related provisions, redirecting incarcerated individuals with serious mental illness to residential mental health treatment units instead.

Extends mental health assessment timelines from 7 days to 14 days for incarcerated individuals placed in segregated confinement at level three and four facilities.

Reduces required out-of-cell therapeutic treatment from 3 hours daily to 2 hours each day, five days a week, for incarcerated individuals with serious mental illness remaining in segregated confinement.

Adds new restrictions on restricted diets for incarcerated individuals with serious mental illness in segregated confinement, limiting them to 7 days except in exceptional circumstances requiring joint case management committee approval.