New York Prison Employee Discipline Data

The Mashall Project

2023

The Marshall Project examined 12 years of employee discipline data and hundreds of prisoner lawsuits. The Marshall Project requested this data via New York's Freedom of Information Law in the summer of 2020. We asked for: "An electronic copy of the database maintained by the Bureau of Labor Relations to document disciplinary cases and their resolutions involving alleged misconduct by DOCCS employees from January 1, 2010 to present." We later asked for a second batch of data covering the time period up until the spring of 2022. By doing so, we prove an in-depth look into the internal disciplinary processes of the New York prison system, offering insights into the nature and frequency of infractions committed by prison staff, the outcomes of disciplinary proceedings, and patterns that may exist within the system. Such detailed information is typically challenging to access, making this dataset particularly valuable for research and analysis in criminal justice and institutional accountability. The dataset has a size of 1,2 MB.