New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 7 - DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS AND COMMUNITY SUPERVISION › Chapter I - General Provisions › Part 1 - Applicability Of Title And Definitions › Section 1.5 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 28, July 10, 2024
When used in this Title, other than Chapter XXX, unless
				  otherwise expressly stated or the context or subject matter otherwise requires,
				  the following terms have the following meanings:
(a) Department means the State Department of
				Corrections and Community Supervision.
(b) Commissioner means the State Commissioner
				of Corrections and Community Supervision.
(c) Chairperson means the chairperson of the
				board of parole.
(d) Board means
				the board of parole.
(e)
				Superintendent means the chief administrative officer of a correctional
				facility.
(f) Correctional facility
				means any place operated by the department and designated by the commissioner
				as a place for the confinement of persons under sentence of
				imprisonment.
(g) Institution means
				a correctional facility and any other place operated by the department as a
				place for the confinement of persons.
(h) Reception center means a correctional
				facility for reception, classification and program-planning for purposes of
				confinement, treatment and transfer.
(i) Detention center means a correctional
				facility for the temporary detention of persons taken into custody upon
				violation of parole or upon violation of a condition of release, or of persons
				being transferred from other correctional facilities, or of persons who are
				assigned to other correctional facilities for confinement but whose presence is
				required in court or for some other purpose at a location that is distant from
				the institution of confinement.
(j)
				Diagnostic and treatment center means a correctional facility operated for the
				purpose of providing intensive physical, mental and sociological diagnostic and
				treatment services including pre-parole diagnostic evaluation, where requested
				by the board of parole, and scientific study of the social and mental aspects
				of the causes of crime.
(k) General
				confinement facility means a correctional facility for confinement and
				treatment of persons under institutional programs oriented to education,
				vocational training and industry.
(l) Correctional camp means a correctional
				facility consisting of a camp maintained for the purpose of including
				conservation work in the program of inmates.
(m) Residential treatment facility means a
				correctional facility consisting of a community-based residence in or near a
				community where employment, educational and training opportunities are readily
				available for persons who are on parole or conditional release and for persons
				who are or who will soon be eligible for release on parole who intend to reside
				in or near that community when released.
(n) Work release facility means a facility
				designated by the commissioner as an institution that may conduct a work
				release program.
(o) Alcohol and
				substance abuse treatment correctional annex means a medium security
				correctional facility consisting of one or more residential dormitories which
				provide intensive alcohol and substance abuse treatment services to inmates
				otherwise eligible for temporary release.
(p) Alcohol and substance abuse treatment
				facility means a correctional facility designed to house medium security
				inmates and operated for the purpose of providing intensive alcohol and
				substance abuse treatment services.
(q) Hub means a regional cluster of
				facilities that share administrative, support, and program services. The hub
				consists of a "core facility" and "satellite facilities".
(r) Shock incarceration facility means a
				correctional facility designated by the commissioner as an institution which
				may conduct the shock incarceration program for selected inmates.
(s) Supervising superintendent means the
				chief administrative officer of a hub.
(t) Drug treatment campus means a facility
				operated by the department to provide a program of intensive drug treatment
				services to individuals sentenced to parole supervision sentences pursuant to
				section 410.91  of the Criminal Procedure Law or
				for certain parole violators.
(u)
Special populations
means any person:
(1) who is pregnant, or in the first eight
				weeks of post-partum recovery period regardless of how the pregnancy ended, or
				caring for a child in a correctional institution pursuant to subdivision two or
				three of section six hundred eleven  of the Correction Law;
(2) who suffers from a disability as defined
				in paragraph (a) of subdivision twenty-one of section two hundred ninety-two  of
				the Executive Law;
(3) twenty-one
				years of age or younger; or
(4)
				fifty-five years of age or older.