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Discussion on state-sentenced individuals held in city jails
3:05:26
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Council Member Cabán inquires about the issue of state-sentenced individuals being held in city jails, particularly those nearing their minimum sentence who can't meet with parole due to not being transferred upstate. Director Logan from the Mayor's Office of Criminal Justice (MOCJ) explains their efforts to coordinate with state partners to address this issue.
- MOCJ has been identifying eligible individuals and working with the state to facilitate their transfer
- The state has been taking individuals who are ready to be released, despite overall shutdowns
- There is acknowledgment of a significant backlog in transfers
Tiffany Cabán
3:05:26
Thank you.
3:05:28
These questions are for DOC.
3:05:30
I want to go back to sort of the the commitment to reduce the census on Rikers.
3:05:37
And there's currently one of many issues, but there's an issue with non movement of individuals that have been given state sentences.
3:05:47
So as the example, you might have a client who's about to hit their minimum one and a half to three, whatever it is, and they have served the majority of that time as a city sentence.
3:05:59
And then they're not meeting with parole because they're not being taken upstate.
3:06:05
Understand the situation with the upstate officers and that the state is saying we don't have the capacity to handle these transfers.
3:06:14
State sentence clients can't be processed for their state sentences while they're in city custody.
3:06:19
So we have this dilemma here.
3:06:21
How are y'all addressing that?
3:06:24
Hi
Deanna Logan
3:06:24
council member.
3:06:26
That actually falls in Mok J.
Tiffany Cabán
3:06:27
Oh, then great.
3:06:28
How are y'all
Deanna Logan
3:06:29
handling that?
3:06:30
Terms coordinating, once identified that this was going to create a logjam on the city side, MACJ reached out to our state partners to start explaining to them what was going on.
3:06:41
So DOC custody management as well as defense providers would identify the people for us, and state has been working with us to take those people.
3:06:52
As much as everything has been shut down, where there are individuals that are within DOC custody that are meeting that criteria of essentially being ready to go, they are taking those people who are going to be essentially released by that company.
Tiffany Cabán
3:07:10
Now there's definitely still a a significant backlog, and I understand that you're saying that you're sending names, but have you thought about the state sending down somebody or somebodies to set up an office on Rikers to cut that off?