§ 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 temporary release, paroled or conditionally released, paroled or conditionally released and declared delinquent, recommitted to a state correctional institution upon revocation of parole or conditional release, or discharge 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, parole and conditional release programs and 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 of correctional services 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 of correctional services 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 correctional services, as the commissioners of correctional services and criminal justice services shall mutually determine. 4. The commissioner of the department of correctional services 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 by December thirty-first.
§ 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 temporary release, paroled or conditionally released, paroled or conditionally released and declared delinquent, recommitted to a state correctional institution upon revocation of parole or conditional release, or discharge 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, parole and conditional release programs and 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 of correctional services 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 of correctional services 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 correctional services, as the commissioners of correctional services and criminal justice services shall mutually determine. 4. The commissioner of the department of correctional services 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 by December thirty-first.
§ 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 temporary release, paroled or conditionally released, paroled or conditionally released and declared delinquent, recommitted to a state correctional institution upon revocation of parole or conditional release, or discharge 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, parole and conditional release programs and 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 of correctional services 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 of correctional services 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 correctional services, as the commissioners of correctional services and criminal justice services shall mutually determine. 4. The commissioner of the department of correctional services 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 by December thirty-first.
