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The New York City Department of Correction (NYCDOC) is the branch of the municipal government of New York City [1] responsible for the custody, control, and care of New York City's imprisoned population, housing the majority of them on Rikers Island. [2]
The New York State prison system had its beginnings in 1797 with a single prison called Newgate located in New York City. A second state prison opened 20 years later in Auburn in 1817, and in 1825 a group of Auburn prisoners made the voyage across the Erie Canal and down the Hudson River to begin building Sing Sing in the village of Ossining ...
In 1840, a permanent jail was completed. It was a 28 by 40 feet sandstone structure designed by Thomas Ustik Walter, a Philadelphia architect best known for his work on the U.S. Capitol and its dome. This jail housed prisoners until 1932 and was then used for vocational training. For a short time in the 1970s, it was used for document storage.
For Fiscal Year 2014, 88% of the Department's budget comes from yearly appropriations, 6% from the Prison Industries Fund, 4% from the Department's Revolving Fund, and 3% from all other sources. In late 2017, the department requested more than 1.5 billion dollars, triple its usual budget to make long-delayed improvements.
The prison now known as Florida State Prison opened in 1961 as the East Annex; at the time of opening it began to house the execution chamber. [15] At some point the Broward Correctional Institution housed female death row inmates. [16] Lowell Annex opened in April 2002. [17] The female death row was moved to Lowell Annex in February 2003. [18]
Prior to its establishment in 2007, prisons operated under the U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command, U.S. Army Forces Command, U.S. Army Europe, and U.S. Forces Korea. [ 3 ] On 2 October 2007, the US Army Corrections Command (ACC) was established as a Field Operating Agency (FOA) under the Operational Control of the United States Army ...
The State of New Jersey produced 30–60-second public service announcements to warn state residents against going to prison. [7] The Mississippi Department of Corrections , the state corrections agency of Mississippi , decided to start its own "Be Smart Choose Freedom" campaign and use the commercials that aired in New Jersey. [ 8 ]
In November 2017, due to facility overcrowding, the Kentucky Department of Corrections signed a contract allowing CoreCivic to reactivate the vacant prison to house up to 800 male inmates. These inmates would be transferred from the Kentucky State Reformatory. [11] The facility reopened and began accepting inmates in March 2018. [12]