Local Law 85 – Visitation Quarterly

Quarterly report on DOC visitation metrics.

New York City Local Law 85 of 2015 requires the New York City Department of Correction (DOC) to publicly report Jail Visitation Statistics within 30 days of the beginning of each quarter for the preceding quarter. Specifically, the DOC is required to report the following metrics on a quarterly basis:

(1)The total number of visitors to city jails, the total number of visitors to borough jail facilities, and the total number of visitors to city jails on Rikers Island,

(2) The total number of visitors that visited a person in custody at city jails, the total number of visitors that visited a person in custody at borough jail facilities, and the total number of visitors that visited a person in custody at city jails on Rikers Island,

(3) The number of visitors unable to visit a person in custody at any city jail, in total and disaggregated by the reason such visit was not completed,

(4) The person in custody visitation rate, which shall be calculated by dividing the average daily number of visitors who visited persons in custody at city jails during the reporting period by the average daily person in custody population of city jails during the reporting period,

(5) The borough jail facility visitation rate, which shall be calculated by dividing the average daily number of visitors who visited persons in custody at borough jail facilities during the reporting period by the average daily person in custody population of borough jail facilities during the reporting period, and

(6) The Rikers Island visitation rate, which shall be calculated by dividing the average daily number of visitors who visited persons in custody at city jails on Rikers Island during the reporting period by the average daily person in custody population of city jails on Rikers Island during the reporting period. The data within this report represents information that was available to the Department at the time of report production is subject to change based on updated information subsequently reported by staff members to the Department.

Data and Resources

Field Value
accessLevel public
catalog_@context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
catalog_@id https://data.cityofnewyork.us/data.json
catalog_conformsTo https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
catalog_describedBy https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
identifier https://data.cityofnewyork.us/api/views/b3eu-nmy6
issued 2021-12-09
landingPage https://data.cityofnewyork.us/d/b3eu-nmy6
modified 2022-01-07
publisher data.cityofnewyork.us
resource-type Dataset
source_datajson_identifier true
source_hash 61e60a2f29ecbb7f09a3b66e3c1bfdc883507f81
source_schema_version 1.1
theme {"Public Safety"}
Groups
  • AmeriGEOSS
  • National Provider
  • North America
Tags
  • amerigeo
  • amerigeoss
  • boroughs
  • ckan
  • contraband
  • geo
  • geoss
  • national
  • north-america
  • rate
  • rikers
  • united-states
  • visits
isopen False
license_id notspecified
license_title License not specified
maintainer NYC OpenData
maintainer_email no-reply@data.cityofnewyork.us
metadata_created 2025-11-22T18:25:32.144309
metadata_modified 2025-11-22T18:25:32.144313
notes Quarterly report on DOC visitation metrics. </p> New York City Local Law 85 of 2015 requires the New York City Department of Correction (DOC) to publicly report Jail Visitation Statistics within 30 days of the beginning of each quarter for the preceding quarter. Specifically, the DOC is required to report the following metrics on a quarterly basis: (1)The total number of visitors to city jails, the total number of visitors to borough jail facilities, and the total number of visitors to city jails on Rikers Island,</p> (2) The total number of visitors that visited a person in custody at city jails, the total number of visitors that visited a person in custody at borough jail facilities, and the total number of visitors that visited a person in custody at city jails on Rikers Island, </p> (3) The number of visitors unable to visit a person in custody at any city jail, in total and disaggregated by the reason such visit was not completed, </p> (4) The person in custody visitation rate, which shall be calculated by dividing the average daily number of visitors who visited persons in custody at city jails during the reporting period by the average daily person in custody population of city jails during the reporting period, </p> (5) The borough jail facility visitation rate, which shall be calculated by dividing the average daily number of visitors who visited persons in custody at borough jail facilities during the reporting period by the average daily person in custody population of borough jail facilities during the reporting period, and </p> (6) The Rikers Island visitation rate, which shall be calculated by dividing the average daily number of visitors who visited persons in custody at city jails on Rikers Island during the reporting period by the average daily person in custody population of city jails on Rikers Island during the reporting period. The data within this report represents information that was available to the Department at the time of report production is subject to change based on updated information subsequently reported by staff members to the Department.
num_resources 4
num_tags 13
title Local Law 85 – Visitation Quarterly