PUBLIC HEARING & COMMENTS
View transcripts from the Board of Correction's public hearing and vote on the proposed changes, as well as public notices and comments from our members, member organizations and others.
The new rules have been published and went into effect on June 16, 2008. Click here to read the official notice of the new rules.
COMMENTS ON PROPOSED PROCEDURES FOR RULEMAKING
Legal Aid Society, Prisoners' Rights Project | pdf |
HEARING TRANSCRIPTS & TEXT OF THE PROPOSALS & NEW RULES
Notice describing the adopted changes (includes text of the original Standards) | pdf |
November 8, 2007 public hearing and vote on the proposed changes | pdf |
June 14, 2007 meeting of the Board of Correction | pdf |
April 17, 2007 public hearing on the proposed changes | pdf |
Notice describing the proposed changes (includes text of the original Standards) | pdf |
COMMENTS FROM OUR MEMBERS & MEMBER ORGANIZATIONS
Coalition to Raise the Minimum Standards | pdf |
Coalition to Raise the Minimum Standards (additional comments) | pdf |
Bronx Defenders | doc |
Correctional Association, John Brickman, Board Chairman | doc |
Correctional Association, Mishi Faruqee, Dir. of the Juvenile Justice Project | pdf |
Fordham Law Students | pdf |
Interfaith Coalition of Advocates for Reentry & Employment, Rima Vesley-Flad | pdf |
Legal Aid Society, Criminal Practice | pdf |
Legal Aid Society, Prisoners' Rights Project | pdf |
Legal Aid Society, Prisoners' Rights Project (additional comments) |
Legal Aid Society, Prisoners' Rights Project (letter re: review process) | pdf |
Michael B. Mushlin, James D. Hopkins Professor of Law at Pace Law School | doc |
National Lawyers Guild, New York City Chapter | pdf |
New York Civil Liberties Union | pdf |
Osborne Association, Kareem Sharperson, Youth Ambassador | doc |
Osborne Association, Makeeba Lavan, Youth Ambassador | doc |
Prisoners' Rights Advocacy at Cardozo | pdf |
Society for Immigrant & Refugee Rights, Columbia University School of Law | pdf |
Stop Prisoner Rape, Katherine Hall-Martinez, Co-Executive Director | pdf |
Sylvia Rivera Law Project | doc |
COMMENTS FROM OTHERS
20 Family & Community Members, Advocates & Formerly Incarcerated Pers. | pdf |
Amnesty International USA, Ariel Herrera | pdf |
Beverlynn Anderson, Former Rikers Inmate | pdf |
Members of APHA Task Force on Stds. for Health Services in Corr. Institutions | pdf |
Books Through Bars Collective | pdf |
Dellarene Brown, Forensic Service Coordinator, C.A.S.A.C-T | pdf |
Richard A. Brown, Queens County District Attorney | pdf |
Stephanie Clark, Former New York City Jail Inmate | pdf |
Correction Officers' Benevolent Assoc., Norman Seabrook, Pres. (comments) | pdf |
Correction Officers' Benevolent Assoc., Norman Seabrook, Pres. (testimony) | pdf |
Criminal Law Society, CUNY School of Law | pdf |
Cassandra Deas, Former Rikers Inmate | pdf |
Dilma Deliote, New York City Resident | pdf |
Department of Correction (comments) | pdf |
Department of Correction, Martin F. Horn, Commissioner (testimony) | pdf |
Department of Investigation, Rose Gill Hearn, Commissioner | pdf |
Laurel Dick, Brooklyn Resident | pdf |
Barbara E. Dunkel, Esq. | pdf |
Reverend David A. Dyson, Pastor, Lafayette Avenue Presbyterian Church | pdf |
Scott Fappianno, Former Rikers Inmate & Exoneree | pdf |
John R. Horan, former member and Vice Chair of the Board of Correction | pdf |
Keith Hurling, Former Rikers Inmate | pdf |
Eunice Jackson, Former Rikers Inmate | pdf |
Kevin Jenkins, Correction Officer | pdf |
Gary Johnson, New York City Resident | pdf |
Robert T. Johnson, Bronx County District Attorney | pdf |
Miguel Martinez, New York City Council, Chair of Fire & Criminal Justice Services Committee | pdf |
Robert Mejias, Former Rikers Inmate | pdf |
Lambda Legal | pdf |
Honorable Morris E. Lasker, U.S.D.J., Boston, Massachusetts | pdf |
Robert M. Morgenthau, New York County District Attorney | pdf |
Nat'l Convocation of Jail & Prison Ministers, Juanita Ujcik | pdf |
New York City Bar Association, Alex Jonatowski | pdf |
North Infirmary Command Inmates | pdf |
PFCF, Marisol Torres | pdf |
Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund (comments) | pdf |
Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund, Ghita Schwarz (testimony) | pdf |
Sidney Schwartzbaum, President of Assistant Deputy Wardens - Deputy Wardens Association | pdf |
Shana Skaletsky, Esq. | pdf |
Jacqueline Velez, former Rikers Inmate | pdf |
Jessica D. Warner, New York City Resident | pdf |