The BOARD of CORRECTION establishes and ensures compliance with minimum standards regulating conditions of confinement and correctional health and mental health care in all City correctional facilities. The Board monitors conditions in the City’s jails, investigates serious incidents, evaluates the performance of the Department of Correction, reviews inmate and employee grievances, and makes recommendations in critical areas of correctional planning.

Chapter 25, Section 626 of the City Charter, provides for nine Board members, three of whom are appointed by the Mayor, three by the City Council, and three by the Mayor on the nomination jointly by the presiding justices of the appellate division of the Supreme Court for the first and second judicial departments. The Board members serve on a rotating basis for terms of six years. The Mayor designates the Chair from among the members.
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