TESTIMONY
Kelly Grace Price on Budget Parity, Oversight in NYC's Correctional System, and Concerns over Female Incarceration
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3 min
Kelly Grace Price highlights the need for budget parity, staff for oversight, and concerns over female incarceration rates in NYC's correctional system.
- Price calls for budget parity within the NYC correctional system and stresses the importance of meeting the executive director of the Board of Correction's budget requests.
- She emphasizes the urgent need for staff to conduct role making, audits, and particularly the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) audits which have not been conducted since 2019.
- Price raises concerns about sexual assaults in correctional facilities due to lack of oversight.
- She points out the opportunity to improve the Board of Correction's charter for better oversight and parity.
- Ending her speech, Price notes that NYC incarcerates 7% of the world's female prison population, highlighting a need for change.
Kelly Grace Price
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Oh, hi.
6:14:42
Good afternoon.
6:14:43
You're talking about Garja.
6:14:45
I'm so happy to follow Batman.
6:14:48
It's those are kind of some hard big shoes to follow.
6:14:53
And I'm very disappointed that I can't be there today for your first criminal justice hearing council member nurse.
6:14:59
I'm very excited for your championship with this committee.
6:15:01
Jeremy as well.
6:15:02
I'm sorry I missed you.
6:15:04
I'm in a hospital waiting room waiting for a doctor's appointment.
6:15:07
So I I might have to log off of security catches me, but I just want to say, to preface, congratulations to all the women and bosses in the room today.
6:15:19
I don't think there's ever been a criminal justice committee hearing where the commissioner of DOC was a woman and the commissioner of Coron was a woman, the chair of the council was a woman, and the executive director of BOC was a woman.
6:15:37
What a great look for us.
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New York City gals today.
6:15:40
I just wanted to take a moment to celebrate that if it hadn't been already.
6:15:45
I missed a lot of the hearing, but I caught most of it.
6:15:49
And I I just wanna say, please, stay on commissioner assistant deputy commissioner Torres.
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She's been promising a hand list of programs for years now.
6:16:03
Every time she shows up, she's asked for it.
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And please share it when you get it, and we'd be very interested in having that I'll turn in my copious written testimony, but I just took off a few of the highlights from it very quickly.
6:16:18
Again, on Kelly Grace Price from Claude Rogies.
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If you don't mind, I'd I'd like to reemphasize a few things I emphasize every year of this budget hearing and I have since 2013 when I started coming to them, when it was still the fire and safety committee.
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We need budget parity.
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With the border correction, please answer all of the executive director's budget request I can't emphasize enough how important that is.
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I support all of her budget requests and urge the council to expand on them.
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We still don't have enough BOC employees to do the work of role making audits.
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We haven't had a Priya audit since 2019, and even then it was partial.
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People are being raped and sexually assaulted, and we have no one to do the work of the audits if you're the same for whatever resolution and comes with the solitary confinement.
6:17:09
We'll we'll have no one to do the audits and to hold the department speech to the fire and implementation.
6:17:16
I'd also like to emphasize that as the POC charter is being rewritten or revamped, because of some legislation put through by the former terrorist committee involving reporting on deaths on the island.
6:17:33
There is an opportunity to go back and look at the BOC charter for parity.
6:17:38
Mhmm.
6:17:38
I wanna just move along quickly As far as access to cameras, I've heard Tina Longo from legal age say this.
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I've heard her say it
Yonah Zeitz
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this Times expired.
Kelly Grace Price
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Thank you for your time.
6:17:53
I'll I'll include my written comments, but I just wanna say New York City sent 7% of the world's female cage population in the cages, and we need to do better.
6:18:03
Thank you so much.
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