Pursuant to local law 33 of 2016, this report provides information on security indicators in city jails for the previous quarter, including uses of force, assaults on staff and/or people in custody, and violent incidents, disaggregated by adults, young adults, and adolescents.
Pursuant to Board of Correction minimum standard 5-40, this report, which evaluates sexual abuse and sexual harassment allegations made in city jails, analyzes emerging trends and assesses the corrective action contemplated and/or initiated at the facility level and department wide.
Pursuant to Local Law 84 of 2015, the Department is required to provide the number of incarcerated individuals who have been found guilty of violating departmental rules, but have not been placed in punitive segregation, restrictive housing or a clinical alternative to punitive segregation housing,
DOC submits report to BOC on the number of persons in custody held or waiting to be held in punitive segregation, length of stay, reduction of pun. seg., out of cell time, recreation, requests to for 60-day punitive segregation sentences and 60-day punitive segregation override and 45 day review.
The Department shall conduct and report a monthly audit of its compliance with BOC Minimum Standards related to lock-in, access to courts and legal services including Law Library, recreation, access to programming and participation rates, and education services utilization rates as applied.
The Department shall produce monthly reports with data spanning from numerical totals since body scanners were implemented and cumulatively by each reporting month. Metrics include,type of contraband recovered, and the mean, median, minimum, and maximum length of stay in Separation Status..
Per Administrative Code of the City of New York section 7-113, the City's Law Department must post information on civil actions alleging misconduct commenced against the Department of Corrections and individual employees on its website.
Pursuant to local law 120, this report provides information on the nursery program located on Rikers Island, including the total number of applications submitted, total number of applications that were approved and denied, the total number of children admitted to the nursery.
The city is in the process of spending $8.7b to close Rikers Island & replace it and other jails with new borough-based facilities. But the new jails are not expected be ready until 2026. In the interim, the city needs to spend millions of dollars on major repairs of the jails destined for closure.