Corrections and Community Supervision, Department of

Agency Web Site: http://www.doccs.ny.gov/

Mission

The Department of Corrections and Community Supervision is responsible for providing services that offenders need in safe and secure facilities, preparing offenders for release, and ensuring they receive appropriate monitoring and support while under community supervision. The goal of the Department is to enhance public safety by ensuring the successful completion of an offender’s sentence in order to lower the risk of reoffending.

Budget Highlights

The Executive Budget recommends $2.946 billion for the Department, an increase of $113 million from 2014-2015. The agency will continue to have sufficient capital appropriations available from prior years, therefore minimal new capital funding is sought in the Executive Budget.

General Fund support for State Operations increases by $102 million, primarily attributable to a 27th institutional payroll and the increased cost of Hepatitis C drugs.

The Executive Budget recommends a workforce of 28,919 FTEs for the Department, an increase of 98 FTEs from 2014-2015. This workforce level reflects the Department's continued efforts to fill 156 essential program positions which were vacant in the current year, offset by a transfer of 58 support positions to the Business Service Center in the Office of General Services to perform human resource functions.

Enacted State Operations appropriations for 2015-2016 have been adjusted downward by $2.2 million to account for the transfer of finance and human resource functions to the Business Service Center.

Note: Most recent estimates as of 01/21/2015

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