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Inquiry about Rikers inmates eligible for transitional housing
2:22:59
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Council Member Cabán asks about the number of people at Rikers who are eligible and waiting for placement in MOCJ-funded transitional housing. Neither MOCJ nor DOC representatives can provide this information immediately.
- MOCJ and DOC representatives are unable to provide immediate data on Rikers inmates eligible for transitional housing
- DOC representative commits to following up with the information
- Council members express frustration at the lack of readily available data
Tiffany Cabán
2:22:59
Can you tell me how many people are currently at Rikers who are eligible for and are waiting to be placed into a mock j funded transitional housing facility?
Deanna Logan
2:23:12
For that I would ask my partners at DOC or CHS if you know how many people that you have that are waiting for placement.
Chelsea Chard
2:23:23
That's not information that we have today, but we can take it back to the appropriate
Sandy Nurse
2:23:27
post class.
2:23:28
Maybe we could ask for it to be sent over while we're here.
2:23:34
It would be important to know the general size of what's going on in your institution.
Chelsea Chard
2:23:39
We can certainly take it back and follow-up.
Sandy Nurse
2:23:42
You're not able to call down to someone or text someone and get that number?
2:23:47
Is that out of the range of don't think it's
Jonathan Lippman
2:23:49
in a
Chelsea Chard
2:23:49
short of a time frame, so I don't want to commit to that, but we can certainly
Sandy Nurse
2:23:52
If you could try, that would be helpful.