The New York City Board of Corrections (BOC), an oversight group responsible for monitoring conditions in city jails, held a public meeting on Sept. 13 to allow community members to speak in order to improve jail conditions.
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Tuesday’s meeting addressed the deaths – one as recent as Aug. 30 – and BOC members questioned members of the Department of Corrections in order to highlight some major problems within DOC facilities that are causing distress to inmates. “From the beginning of June we have approximately 1,000 staff members out, that number has decreased significantly to 800,” said DOC First Deputy Commissioner Lynelle Maginley-Liddie. “We are continuing to make progress to get people back to work in addition to recruiting. We just unboarded a class of approximately 115 recruits and they are scheduled to graduate at the end of the year and recruitment is ongoing.