2012 New York Consolidated Laws
COR - Correction
Article 4-B - (86 - 89-L) ALTERNATE CORRECTIONAL FACILITIES FOR THE CITY OF NEW YORK
89-E - Alternate correctional facility review panel.

 
    § 89-e. Alternate correctional facility review panel. 1. The alternate
  correctional  facility  review  panel  is  hereby  established and shall
  consist of the commissioner, the chairman of  the  state  commission  of
  correction,  the  chairman  of  the board of parole, the director of the
  office of probation and correctional alternatives, the  commissioner  of
  correction  of the city of New York, the president of the New York State
  Sheriffs'  Association  Institute,  Inc.,  and  the  president  of   the
  Correctional  Association  of  New York or their designees. The governor
  shall appoint a chairman and vice-chairman from among the members.
    2. The panel shall be authorized to enter and inspect at any  and  all
  times each alternate correctional facility or any part thereof and shall
  have  access  to  all  books,  records  and  data pertaining to any such
  facility within the possession of the department relating to subdivision
  three of this section.
    3. The panel shall examine whether alternate  correctional  facilities
  should  continue to be utilized, whether all steps practicable have been
  taken by the city of New York toward  finding  alternatives  to  housing
  eligible  inmates  in  alternate  correctional facilities, including the
  construction of correctional facilities within the city of New York  and
  the  development of alternatives to incarceration, and whether there has
  been compliance with all applicable laws, rules and regulations and  the
  operation agreement.
    4.  The panel shall prepare an annual report which shall be filed with
  the governor, the mayor of the city of New York,  the  chairman  of  the
  senate  crime and correction committee, and the chairman of the assembly
  committee on correction no later than the first day  of  March  of  each
  year.