Q&A
Helen Skipper discusses the role of the Board of Corrections
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Helen Skipper explains the role of the Board of Corrections in overseeing the Department of Corrections, ensuring minimum standards are met, and promoting accountability and transparency. She emphasizes her unique perspective based on personal experience and professional expertise.
- The Board of Corrections watches over the Department of Corrections and develops appropriate minimum standards.
- Skipper highlights the need for more transparency and addressing ongoing issues in the NYC Department of Corrections.
- She sees her role as an opportunity to use her personal lived experience and professional expertise to bring about change in the justice system.
Keith Powers
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Thank you.
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Can you talk a little bit about the role and that you see the board of action playing and why you particularly wanna serve as part of that argument, we've touched them on that in your opening statement.
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But what talk a little more about the role point the board plays and where you see your role in that being?
Helen Skipper
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So a lot of corrections is who one of a better word watched all over the department of corrections.
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We are here to make sure that minimum standards are met.
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We are here to make sure that we develop appropriate minimum standards.
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We are here to make sure that accountability and transparency is open New York City DLC is in a state of for one of a better word of confusion.
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There are things that are going on that need to be more transparent.
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There are issues that need to be addressed.
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There are barriers that need to be overcome.
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And we are here to ensure that these things are taken care of.
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Again, in a humane and just fashion.
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Serving on the border corrections, right now, I'm going back to my hammering note.
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This is a chance for me to utilize my my personal lived experience that has been elevated.
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To professional expertise and bringing about change within this current iteration about justice system.
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I believe my experience in professional and academic acumen, it give me a unique personal insights into the difficulties and the injustices that for those that are caught up, my efforts would be to defend the rights and dignity of those who are in these carnival spaces.
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While demanding and upholding accountability accountability and transparency of what we need.