The Division of Correctional Services is responsible for the care, custody, and rehabilitation of all offenders sentenced to its institutions. Included for the division of correctional services is a summary of appropriations and estimated expenditures for 1977, and a budget for 1980. Administrative bulletins can be found concerning such topics as work release, temporary release program violators, leave of absence and furlough 1972-1974. Also included are several Correctional services procedure directives concerning the inmate liaison committee, affirmative action, research studies and surveys, minimum provisions for health and morale, inmate group activities and organizations, and human rights complaints. Also found are inspection reports concerning fire and housing for the Elmira correctional center 1980-1982, inmate grievance mechanisms and case records 1975-1976.
The correspondence of Richard Hongisto, acting commissioner for 1978, can be found along with a statement report concerning his plans and concerns for the criminal justice system which he addressed to the senate crime and correction committee 1979. Also included are legislative status sheets for 1979, and Prison security and staffing statistics for all prisons from Albion to Woodbourne for 1969-1976. From the office of program planning, evaluation and research, reports can be found concerning five year release programs 1975, the second felony offender sentencing act 1973-1974, delinquency and return rates 1976, and parole violators 1976. A rule book addressing inmate rules, penalties and outline of procedures for 1975 can also be found along with an employees handbook. Finally brochures on staying out of prison programs for 1982 are present, and temporary release program outlines, including regulations, reports and agreements for 1978-1981.
Also, the series contains information on prison expansion debate, such as the Joint Legislative Committee Hearing, reports, tables, statistics, and surveys 1980-1982 and statistics on inmate population in New York State prisons.