New York City's jail system counts 123 people awaiting state transfer after being found unfit during early 2020, with some waiting two months
Filed under Local Law 84 of 2015, the Department of Correction's report for the third quarter of fiscal 2020 (January 1 to March 31, 2020) counts 123 incarcerated people who awaited transfer to the custody of state health, mental health or developmental disability agencies after a court designated them unfit to proceed.
The table gives each person's initial jail admission date, designation date, discharge date and facility, days waiting since designation and total days in city custody. In this quarter the longest wait since designation was 62 days, and one person's total time in city custody reached 1,049 days. Some discharge dates in the table run into April 2020.
The document contains no analysis of its own, but its person-by-person table gives a public count of how long New York City holds defendants found unfit under Criminal Procedure Law section 730 before a state bed opens.
Source: Quarterly 730 Waitlist Report — New York City Department of Correction
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