Your guide to NYC's public proceedings.
Q&A
BOC's involvement in the borough-based jail planning process
4:43:49
ยท
98 sec
Council Member Diana Ayala inquires about the Board of Correction's involvement in the borough-based jail planning process. Katrina Blackman from BOC explains their ongoing engagement and input in the development of the new facilities.
- BOC has been holding quarterly meetings with the Department of Correction and Correctional Health Services for the past two years or more.
- These meetings provide updates on the borough-based jails, including information on housing areas, recreation areas, hospitals, and visitation spaces.
- BOC provides recommendations during these meetings and follows up on them in subsequent quarterly sessions.
- Board members are engaged in these conversations to provide an oversight perspective on the recommendations.
- The next quarterly meeting is scheduled for the end of the current month.
- Council Member Ayala concludes by expressing hope for continuing to work together to improve BOC's budget.
Diana Ayala
4:43:49
What type of involvement has the board had in the borough based jail process?
Katrina Blackman
4:44:00
So over the past two years, actually even before that, we've held in collaboration with the department and CHS recently quarterly meetings.
4:44:09
So every quarter we have a meeting with the department, CHS again recently, and we talk about the updates of said borough based jails.
4:44:19
So they can give us everything and anything providing to us expansion housing area locations, recreation areas.
4:44:28
They talk to us about or they share with us updates about the hospitals and also visit areas, anywhere that people in custody families can congregate in those settings.
Diana Ayala
4:44:43
Are you able to give recommendations?
Katrina Blackman
4:44:45
We do give recommendations and we do have like I said quarterly follow ups with them.
4:44:51
Our next quarterly meeting is scheduled for the end of this month.
4:44:55
Okay.
4:44:55
So we do provide them we do provide them recommendations and we also have our board members engaged in those conversations with them, so they can hear from an oversight lens what some of those recommendations could
Diana Ayala
4:45:08
be.
4:45:08
Understood.
4:45:13
All right, we don't have any other members present to ask any questions and that's all the questions that I have for you.
4:45:18
Thank you guys for coming and testifying and we look forward to continuing to work together to get you a better budget.
Jasmine Georges-Yilla
4:45:26
Thank you.
Juanita Holmes
4:45:26
Thank you.
4:45:27
Thank you.