Requires that all felony offenders shall be eligible for parole after serving no more than twenty-five years of their sentence; eliminates the possibility of serving consecutive terms of imprisonment which exceed a twenty-five year sentence.
Statutes affected: A6257: 60.06 penal law, 70.00 penal law, 70.00(3) penal law, 70.02 penal law, 70.02(3) penal law, 70.04 penal law, 70.06 penal law, 70.07 penal law, 70.08 penal law, 70.10 penal law, 70.20 penal law, 70.20(2-a) penal law, 70.71 penal law, 70.80 penal law, 70.80(3) penal law, 490.25 penal law, 490.25(2) penal law, 136 correction law, 136(2) correction law, 220.10 criminal procedure law, 220.10(5) criminal procedure law, 220.30 criminal procedure law, 220.30(3) criminal procedure law, 440.20 criminal procedure law, 440.20(1) criminal procedure law, 70.25 penal law, 70.25(1) penal law