§ 9-127 Housing, employment and sobriety needs.
AC § 9-127
a. The department of correction and the department of homeless services shall develop a process for identifying individuals who repeatedly are admitted to city correctional institutions and who, in addition, either immediately before their admission to or after their release from such institutions, are housed in shelter provided by the department of homeless services. b. The department of correction shall collect, from any sentenced incarcerated individual who will serve, after sentencing, ten days or more in any city correctional institution, information relating to such incarcerated individual's housing, employment and sobriety needs. The department of correction shall, with the consent of such incarcerated individual, provide such information to any social service organization that is providing discharge planning services to such incarcerated individual under contract with the department of correction. For the purposes of this section and sections 9-128 and 9-129 of this title, "discharge planning" shall mean the creation of a plan for post-release services and assistance with access to community-based resources and government benefits designed to promote an incarcerated individual's successful reintegration into the community. (Am. L.L. 2016/121, 10/28/2016, eff. 10/28/2016; Am. 2021 N.Y. Laws Ch. 322, 8/2/2021, eff. 8/2/2021) Editor's note: For related unconsolidated provisions, see Appendix A at L.L. 2004/054.
