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Expansion of NYC Jail Population Review Program
8:02:52
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Council Member Yusef Salaam inquires about the expansion and impact of the NYC Jail Population Review Program. MOCJ officials provide information on the program's current status and benefits.
- The program has been expanded citywide, contrary to initial statements.
- MOCJ has funding to fully expand the program by the end of the current fiscal year.
- The program has provided valuable data for creating targeted solutions and enhancing services.
- It has led to the development of an intensive case management program for individuals not responding well to the standard supervised release model.
Yusef Salaam
8:02:52
Thank you.
8:03:01
Has the NYC jail population review program in Brooklyn and Manhattan been expanded citywide?
Deanna Logan
8:03:16
So the the program has not yet gone citywide.
8:03:20
It is still in Queens and Manhattan and we are at this point reviewing with the teams to figure out what is the best path forward for moving the program ahead.
Nora Daniel
8:03:36
So we've started to we have the funding to to expand it and so we are looking to expand it fully within by the end of this fiscal year.
Yusef Salaam
8:03:50
And what impact on public safety and the average daily population have you seen come out of the NYC jail population review program?
Deanna Logan
8:04:04
Thank you.
8:04:04
I'm gonna start and then I'm gonna let miss Daniel go ahead.
8:04:09
The impact for us in terms of public safety has been a very clear granular level understanding of the individuals that are coming into the system.
8:04:22
And having that new data was something that we did not originally have, we have been able to start creating the solutions for the services and the things that needed to be enhanced.
8:04:40
So for example I mentioned our intensive case management program.
8:04:44
What our data folks had seen was that there were a core group of individuals who were not responding to the supervised release model that had been in operation for quite some time, and based on that information we were able to realize the specific steps that we needed to add.
8:05:06
We needed to reduce case sizes for the individuals that we saw that were coming in that were presenting with this persistent pattern.
8:05:14
So we needed more senior case managers who had more experience because these individuals had higher needs.
8:05:22
We needed to make sure that we were providing them with more supports to come to court because their nervous system responded in ways that the average New Yorker may not.
8:05:33
If I say to you and to Ms.
8:05:35
Daniel and to myself, we have to be at City Council for a three p.
8:05:39
M.
8:05:39
Hearing, then we make sure that we get here at three p.
8:05:42
M.
8:05:42
What we saw with these individuals that were being not so successful in supervised release was that their nervous system responded to that as a fight or flight.
8:05:51
So where you thought it was a meaningful opportunity, it really wasn't because their nervous system did not have the coping skills to be able to get them to that place at that time.
8:06:01
So giving them a case manager that got them to the behavioral supports that helped them develop coping skills so that they didn't receive that information as a fight or flight scenario were some of the things that we use that other information to then be able to build within the current structure of the tools that we provide.
Nora Daniel
8:06:24
And apologies, it's a correction.
8:06:27
Jail population review has expanded citywide.
8:06:29
It is citywide.