N.Y. Correction Law § 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 incarcerated individuals 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.