People ex rel. Carillo v. Basilone

OPINION OF THE COURT

Richard Lee Price, J.

This decision will address 54 consolidated petitions by newly sentenced prisoners confined at Rikers Island, a New York City Department of Correction (City DOC) facility, while awaiting transfer to a State correctional facility (State DOCS). The inmates were sentenced to a period of incarceration in a State DOCS facility but, pursuant to a contract between it and City DOC, they are being housed at Rikers Island for up to six months. Petitioners seek to be transferred forthwith to a State DOCS prison because, they claim, while in the City DOC facility…