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Jail Regulations
Jail Regulations
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. These standards are compiled in the Rules of the City of New York, Title 40.
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Minimum Standards
These standards regulate:
- Non-discriminatory treatment of inmates
- Classification
- Personal hygiene
- Overcrowding
- Lock-in
- Access to recreation
- Practice of religion
- Access to courts and legal services, including law library
- Visiting
- Telephone calls
- Correspondence
- Packages
- Publications
- Access to media
- Enhanced Supervision Housing (ESH)
Repeal of these minimum standards has been suspended by Emergency Executive Order 279 of 2021 (as amended by Emergency Executive Order 297 of 2021). - Limitations on Punitive Segregation
Repeal of these minimum standards has been suspended by Emergency Executive Order 279 of 2021 (as amended by Emergency Executive Order 297 of 2021). - Variances
Mental Health Minimum Standards
These standards regulate:
- Service Goals
- Identification and Detection
- Diagnosis and Referral
- Treatment
- Medication
- Restraints and Seclusion
- Confidentiality
- Coordination
- Variances
Health Care Minimum Standards
These standards regulate:
- Service Goals and Purpose
- Access to Health Care Services
- Training and Continuing Education
- Screening
- Pharmaceutical Services
- Treatment
- Records
- Privacy and Confidentiality
- Quality Assurance
- Inmate Death
- Disaster Plan
- Shackling of Inmates
- Variances
- Injury Response
Elimination of Sexual Abuse and Sexual Harassment in Correctional Facilities
These standards regulate:
- Definitions
- Prevention Planning
- Responsive Planning
- Training and Education
- Screening for Risk of Sexual Victimization and Abusiveness
- Reporting
- Official Response Following an Inmate Report
- Investigations
- Discipline
- Medical and Mental Care
- Data Collection and Review; Audits
- Variances
Variances
The Department of Correction and NYC Health and Hospitals may apply for a variance from a specific subdivision or section of the minimum standards, mental health care minimum standards or health care minimum standards when compliance cannot be achieved or continued.