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|  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. If you would like information about how to locate an inmate, get to Rikers Island, post bail, visit an inmate, send money to an inmate’s account, schedule an attorney visit, deliver a package to an inmate, or schedule pick-up of inmate property, contact the Department of Correction at 718-546-0631 or www.nyc.gov/doc. The Board of Correction has jurisdiction over the New York City jails. Its jurisdiction does not include the New York State prison system. Information regarding the NYS prison system may be obtained by contacting the offices listed to the right. | |
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 Judge Gerald Harris named BOC Chair On November 16, 2011 Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg appointed Gerald Harris to the Board of Correction and designated him as Chair. Judge Harris, a former Acting State Supreme Court Justice and Criminal Court Judge, succeeds Hildy J. Simmons as Chair. Ms. Simmons joined the Board in 2004 and became Chair in 2005. Judge Harris assumes the term of retiring Board Member Stanley Kreitman, who first was appointed to the BOC in 1991. Mr. Kreitman served as Chair from 2001 to 2005. |
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Board of Correction Job Opening Until further notice, the Board is unable to fill this position due to a city-wide hiring freeze. The Board of Correction is accepting applications for the position of Correctional Standards Review Specialist II. The successful applicant will work in the City’s jails as a compliance monitor. The position involves frequent daily interactions with uniformed and civilian Department of Correction staff, health and mental health care providers, and inmates. For additional information and application instructions, click here.  For additional information and application instructions, click here. |
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DOHMH receives authorization for pilot TB screening project at RMSC At its March 14, 2011 meeting, the Board authorized a six-month renewal of a variance to modify §3-04(b)(2)(v)(a) of the Health Care Minimum Standards. The renewed variance applies to tuberculosis screening of prisoners at one facility only, the Rose M. Singer Center (RMSC) on Rikers Island. It authorizes screening with either a TST (currently required by the Standards) or IGRA (interferon gamma release assays). A proposed outline explains the project, which exempts certain prisoner-patients from such screening. DOHMH announced that the pilot will begin on March 14, 2011. |
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Judge decides Close Custody violates BOC’s Minimum Standards State Supreme Court Judge Marcy Friedman has ruled, in Jackson et.al v. Horn, that the inmate-petitioners were “entitled to a declaratory judgment determining that the DOC’s close custody housing program violates BOC Minimum Standard § 1-05, and that the DOC is obligated to comply with section 1-05. The Minimum Standards, including 1-05, are legal mandates with which the DOC, through its Commissioner, is duty-bound to comply. Put another way, the DOC lacks discretion to decide whether or not to comply with Minimum Standard § 1-05.” |
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Board unanimously rejects DOC variance requests At its June 18, 2009 special public meeting, the Board unanimously rejected the Department of Correction’s requests for variances from §1-06 (“Recreation”) and §1-09 (“Visiting”) of the Minimum Standards for NYC Correctional Facilities. The Department had sought authorization to reduce the prisoner outdoor recreation schedule from seven days per week to five and to reduce the visiting schedule from five days per week to four. The Board had heard comments on these requests at its June 5th public hearing where eleven speakers presented testimony, and DOC Commissioner Martin Horn submitted written comments. The Board also reviewed information provided by the Department in response to many questions about the variances raised by the Board, and several Board Members inspected Rikers Island facilities to review visit processing and recreation. |
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Next Meeting of the Board of Correction The next meeting of the Board of Correction is scheduled for Monday, March 12, 2012 at 9:00 a.m. at the Board of Correction offices at 51 Chambers Street in Room 929. |
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