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NYC 9/11 Public Portal Document

DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTION The Department of Correction provides custody, card, and control of detainees awaiting trial or sentence; misdemeanants or felons sentenced to one year or less; State prisoners with court appearances in New York City; newly sentenced felons awaiting transportation to State correctional facilities; and alleged parole violators awaiting revocation hearings. I Financial Review

The 2002 Executive Budget for the Department of Correction provides for a total operating budget of $867 million, an increase of $33 million from the amount forecast jin 2001. The increase is primarily due to service enhancemehts and required collective bargaining funding. Capital commitments in the 2002 Ten-Year Plan will total $1.8 billion;

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The Department of Correction collects revenue from prison commissary operations, vending machines, meal fees, inmate fines and sundry accounts. In 2002, the Department expects to collect $17 million from all revenue sources. ; I Expense Budget Highlights

Budgetary Priorities: Providing Core Services

* In September 2001, 350 new recruits will complete training and will begin to serve a.s Correction Officers in City jails. These new officers will replace attrition and will enable the Department to continue to control overtime expenditures in 2002. I • In 2001, in conjunction with several City agencies, the Department began providing discharge planning for mentally in inmates. The Department will provide 43 uniform positions atacostof $3 million to escort inmates to their discharge planners.

Streamlining

• The Department has managed the recent decline in inmate population by closing facilities and consolidating beds); This effective capacity management has saved the City millions of dollars. The Department will reduce planned annual overtime expenditures by $19 million in 2002 and by $10 million in 2003.

• The Department received $39 million in 2001 through the U.S. Department of Justice State Criminal Alien Assistance Program. Another $20 million is anticipated in September 2001. The reimbursements offset costs associated with the jailing of illegal immigrants.

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