Who is incarcerated in new york city

Will It Keep Trying? Once VINE receives information that an inmate's custody status has changed, it will call all persons registered to receive notification regarding that individual. Receipt of notification can be confirmed only by the recipient giving the registered Personal Identification Number PIN.

Will It Call Me at Work? Don't register a phone number that reaches a switchboard or some other person answering unless prior arrangements have been made with that answering person to enter your correct PIN. Be aware VINE cannot place calls to phones that require entering additional extension numbers.

Only direct dial numbers will work. VINE is not equipped to enter additional extension numbers to access a phone. The out-of-state VINE center is connected to DOC's IIS via sophisticated, state-of-the-art technology that checks changes in the database approximately every quarter hour, 24 hours a day, every day, days a year, accordingly confirming incarcerations and notifying on releases. The calls go out day and night, weekday and weekends.

Although VINE is a heavy-duty, industrial-strength, highly reliable system, it - like any human service - can malfunction. And it will not be fast. We estimate it will take at least a decade. In order to achieve our goal, we must have a jail population that is small enough to be housed safely off Rikers Island.

Also see these New York graphs:. In the U. The U. We also have a version of this graph focusing on the incarceration of women. We gave New York a failing grade in September for its response to the coronavirus in prisons, noting that:.

For more detail, see our September report States of Emergency. Quick action could slow the spread of the viral pandemic in prisons and jails and in society as a whole. Not near you? The Attica Uprising and its Aftermath, : This feature allows you to search and browse digitized records from multiple series, including documents, audio, and video files from the New York State Governor, Department of Law, and Division of the State Police.

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