NYC BY THE NUMBERS: Following an investigation into health care in the city’s jails, in 2015 Mayor de Blasio shifted responsibility for providing health care in the jails from private firms to the city’s public hospital system. Despite a shrinking jail population, the cost of care has increased.
Pursuant to local law 33 of 2016, this report provides information on security indicators in city jails, including uses of force, assaults on staff and/or people in custody, and violent incidents.
New York City Board of Correction Weekly COVID-19 Updates including population changes, Correctional Health Services (CHS) and Department of Correction (DOC) updates to the Board of Correction (BOC), and housing information.
Due to the COVID- 19 crisis, the Board of Correction (BOC) will not be submitting its first progress report (due July 1, 2020) on the impact on incarcerated individuals of closing jails on Rikers Island and constructing new facilities to replace such jails as required by Law 192 of 2019.
New York City Board of Correction Weekly COVID-19 Updates including population changes, Correctional Health Services (CHS) and Department of Correction (DOC) updates to the Board of Correction (BOC), and housing information.
New York City Board of Correction Weekly COVID-19 Updates including population changes, Correctional Health Services (CHS) and Department of Correction (DOC) updates to the Board of Correction (BOC), and housing information.
Pursuant to Local Law 132 of 2019, the Department is required to report on a monthly basis an aggregate report on non-production of individuals in custody to scheduled medical appointments. The data within the report represents the non-unique number of incarcerated individuals who were not produced.
Pursuant to Local Law 144 of 2019(b), the Department is required to report on aggregate data related to applications for housing made by transgender, gender non-binary, and intersex individuals admitted into the Department’s custody from December 1, 2019 to May 31, 2020.
Pursuant to the local law the Department of Correction is required to submit a quarterly report on emergency facility lock ins within the correctional facilities. This report provides information regarding the rate of emergency lock-ins that the Department of Correction reports quarterly.
Pursuant to local law, this report provides information related to use of force investigations in city jails, including the number and rate of investigations, and investigation outcomes.