2012 New York Consolidated Laws
COR - Correction
Article 2 - (5 - 29) DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS AND COMMUNITY SUPERVISION
29 - Department statistics.

 
    §  29.  Department  statistics.  1.  The  department shall continue to
  collect, maintain, and analyze statistical  and  other  information  and
  data  with  respect  to  persons  subject  to  the  jurisdiction  of the
  department, including but  not  limited  to:  (a)  the  number  of  such
  persons: placed in the custody of the department, assigned to a specific
  department   program,   accorded   community  supervision  and  declared
  delinquent,  recommitted  to  a  state  correctional  institution   upon
  revocation   of   community  supervision,  or  discharged  upon  maximum
  expiration of sentence; (b) the criminal history of  such  persons;  (c)
  the  social,  educational,  and  vocational  circumstances  of  any such
  persons; and, (d) the institutional and community  supervision  programs
  and  the  behavior  of such persons. Provided, however, in the event any
  statistical  information  on  the  ethnic  background  of   the   inmate
  population  of a correctional facility or facilities is collected by the
  department, such statistical  information  shall  contain,  but  not  be
  limited  to, the following ethnic categories: (i) Caucasian; (ii) Asian;
  (iii)  American  Indian;  (iv)  Afro-American/Black;  and  (v)   Spanish
  speaking/Hispanic  which  category shall include, but not be limited to,
  the following  subcategories  consisting  of:  (1)  Puerto  Ricans;  (2)
  Cubans; (3) Dominicans; and (4) other Hispanic nationalities.
    2.  The  commissioner  shall  make rules as to the privacy of records,
  statistics and other information collected, obtained and  maintained  by
  the  department, its institutions or the board of parole and information
  obtained in an official  capacity  by  officers,  employees  or  members
  thereof.
    3.  The  commissioner  shall  have  access  to  records  and  criminal
  statistics collected by the division of criminal  justice  services  and
  the  commissioner  of  criminal  justice  services  shall have access to
  records  and  criminal  statistics  collected  by  the   department   of
  corrections   and   community   supervision,   as  the  commissioner  of
  corrections and community supervision and the commissioner  of  criminal
  justice services shall mutually determine.
    4.  (a)  The  commissioner  shall  provide  an  annual  report  to the
  legislature on  the  staffing  of  correction  officers  and  correction
  sergeants  in  state correctional facilities. Such report shall include,
  but not be limited to the following  factors:  the  number  of  security
  posts  on  the current plot plan for each facility that have been closed
  on a daily  basis,  by  correctional  facility  security  classification
  (minimum,   medium  and  maximum);  the  number  of  security  positions
  eliminated by correctional facility since two thousand compared  to  the
  number  of  inmates  incarcerated  in each such facility; a breakdown by
  correctional facility  security  classification  (minimum,  medium,  and
  maximum)  of  the  staff  hours  of  overtime  worked, by year since two
  thousand and the annual aggregate costs related  to  this  overtime.  In
  addition,  such  report  shall  be  delineated  by correctional facility
  security  classification,  the  annual  number  of  security   positions
  eliminated,  the  number  of  closed  posts and amount of staff hours of
  overtime accrued as well  as  the  overall  overtime  expenditures  that
  resulted.  Such  report  shall  be  provided to the chairs of the senate
  finance, assembly ways and  means,  senate  crime  and  corrections  and
  assembly  correction committees, and posted on the department's website,
  annually by February first.
    (b) Such report shall also include but not be limited  to:  the  total
  number  of  correctional facilities in operation which are maintained by
  the department, the security level of each facility, the number of  beds
  at  each  facility  as  of  December  thirty-first of the prior year, as
  classified by the department, and the number of empty beds, if  any,  by
  such classification as of such date.