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Leave this field blank. In , when overcrowding prevented the City from complying with Federal District Court orders, the Department released more than pre-trial detainees. One immediate consequence of this "legal jailbreak" was the City's decision to begin an ambitious emergency capital construction project whereby DOC would add almost 2, beds to capacity.
To assist the Department and prevent further releases during construction, the Board agreed to amend the overcrowding section of the Standards that had required DOC to provide at least 75 square feet of living space per inmate in dormitories. The amendment, effective July , reduced the per-inmate square-footage requirement by 20 percent, from 75 to 60 square feet, thereby providing the Department with immediate, temporary relief from the pressures of overcrowding and the threat of another release of inmates.
In exchange, DOC agreed to abide by maximum capacity limits for dormitories 50 detainees or 60 sentenced prisoners opened after the effective date of the amendment. The Board also incorporated into the amended Standard the requirements of the NYC Building Code for ratios of operable toilets, showers and sinks in dormitories. The Board and the Department agreed that dormitory capacity limits and fixture ratios would help to ameliorate the effects of increasing the number of inmates housed in each dormitory.
In November , the Board adopted amendments to its rules.
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