The Correction Academy’s current class of officer recruits has just completed its fourth week, which concludes a curriculum on the skills needed to serve as a Peace Officer—the status New York’s Boldest have when they are off duty and outside DOC facilities.  In a simulated crime scene, recruit officers demonstrate how to preserve, locate, identify, and collect physical evidence.

The NYC Department of Correction this week joins with correction departments throughout the United States to celebrate National Correctional Officers and Employees Week, May 6-12.
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Nearly one hundred DOC staff members, and their families, participated on Sunday in the March of Dimes annual March for Babies, which raises money to improve the health of newborns by preventing birth defects, premature birth and infant mortality. 
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The NYC Department of Correction honored National Crime Victims Rights Week April 22-28, 2012 with a candlelight vigil on Rikers Island Monday night and the release of a groundbreaking Bill of Rights for DOC staff who have been victimized by crime.
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Crime Victim's Bill of Rights for the NYC DOC 

The US Attorney General Eric Holder presented DOC Commissioner Dora B. Schriro with the Allied Professional Award today (April 20, 2012)  at the National Crime Victims’ Service Awards Ceremony in Washington, DC.
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Officer Khalil Barcia, pictured above, was one of 260 new Recruit Correction officers whose graduation was celebrated in a ceremony at York College on April 5th, 2012. Officer Barcia will begin his career as a Correction Officer wearing the badge previously worn by his mother, Officer Robin Wilson, who died of cancer at age 47.  Mayor Michael Bloomberg, the keynote speaker, swore in the class of Recruits and described correction staff as “men and women who put themselves on the frontlines – both on our streets and in our jails – to keep us safe.”
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Officer William C. Hille, of the Fire and Safety Unit on Rikers Island, was injured yesterday while fighting a fire in Manorville, Long Island, where he has been a volunteer fireman for the past 17 years.
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NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg joined up with New York’s Boldest during a special job fair for military veterans on the USS Intrepid this week. Front and center in DOC’s recruitment effort were military veterans DOC Capt. Gamien Batchelor, Officer Patricia Guy, and Officer James Ravenell, a Purple Heart winner for his service in Iraq. Read more to see who else showed up to check out the DOC!
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The DOC marched in the St. Patrick’s Day parade on March 16th, proudly wearing the green in the annual NYC event. Commissioner Dora B. Schriro (center, with scarf) was joined in this photo by Councilwoman Elizabeth Crowley and the DOC Pipe Band. Captain Marc Von Braunsberg was the Grand Marshall for the DOC.
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Music—and children's literature—were on the menu for some inmates at Rikers Island recently as part of two special programs. Thanks to a quartet of Carnegie Hall musicians, some 75 incarcerated women and 150 men attended concerts and a musical workshop as part of Carnegie Hall's Academy fellowship program.
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The New York City Department of Correction Pipe Band proudly marched in the Super Bowl Parade on Tuesday, Feb. 7th in Lower Manhattan. The parade was attended by thousands of enthusiastic Giants fans, including several of New York's Boldest!
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Following an open house on Saturday, Feb.4 attended by approximately 625 members of the public, The NYC Department of Correction this week began re-populating the Brooklyn Detention Complex (BDC) for the first time since 2003.
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The TV Show “Blue Bloods”  filmed scenes for an upcoming episode at the Manhattan Detention Center sally port in early January. The hours-long shoot focused on a bus pulling up and discharging inmates (all of whom were actors). The show’s stars - Donnie Wahlberg, Bridget Moynahan and Tom Selleck - were not on the scene, but many actors regularly have appeared on location at Department of Correction jails, including most recently, Eddie Murphy and Ben Stiller in “Tower Heist,” shot at Rikers Island, and the TV show “Bored to Death” with Jason Schwartzman and Zach Galifianakis, filmed at the Brooklyn Detention Complex.

The New York City Department of Correction and partner Groundswell Community Mural Project recently unveiled a new public mural on the State Street side of the Brooklyn Detention Complex. The 90-foot-wide mural is 18 feet high. It is the creation of 15 young people participating in a summer leadership institute run by Groundswell.
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The New York City Department of Correction is implementing a major energy efficiency and pollution mitigation measure on Rikers Island. We are upgrading our energy infrastructure on Rikers to include a new cogeneration facility.
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The New York City Department of Correction today announced a new facilities plan which will reduce the number of inmate beds on Rikers Island by approximately 3,000. Fifty  deteriorated temporary housing units that are costly to maintain will be taken down, and in their place the Department will build a critically needed and efficient 1,500-bed jail on Rikers Island. The new jail will be energy efficient and cost effective, incorporate the latest jail management best practices, and feature a centralized admissions and discharge center. This represents the City’s most significant capital investment in the correctional system in two decades.
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Effective immediately, the NYC Department of Correction (NYC DOC) has implemented revised procedures specifying the accepted forms of identification for attorneys, non-attorneys, and legal assistants to access NYC inmates in areas of the supreme and criminal courthouses under NYC DOC control.
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Effective June 16, 2008, all inmate telephone calls may be monitored or recorded. Attorneys, physicians/clinicians and clergy may request that their numbers be placed on the Do Not Record list.
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