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 advances improvement and change toward smaller, safer, fairer, and more humane jails.
If you would like information about how to locate a person in custody, get to Rikers Island, post bail, visit a person in custody, send money to a person in custody's account, schedule an attorney visit, deliver a package to a person in custody, or schedule pick-up of person in custody property, contact the NYC Department of Correction at 718-546-1500 or www.nyc.gov/doc.
Chair Dwayne C. Sampson's Statement and Vision
Third Report and Recommendations on 2022 Deaths in NYC Department of Correction Custody
2021 Suicides and Drug-Related Deaths Report
Board Statement on Recent Suicides in the New York City Jails
Website Accessibility Statements
NYC Correctional Health Services
NYS Department of Corrections and Community Supervision
Legal Aid Society – Prisoner's Rights Projects