The commissioner shall have:
1. Charge and management of all institutions of the city, including all hospital wards therein for the care and custody of felons, misdemeanants, all prisoners under arrest awaiting arraignment who require hospital care, including those requiring psychiatric observation or treatment and violators of ordinances or local laws and for the detention of witnesses who are unable to furnish security for their appearance in criminal proceedings, except such places for the detention of prisoners or persons charged with crime as are by law placed under the charge of some other agency.
2. Sole power and authority concerning the care, custody and control of all court pens for the detention of prisoners while in the criminal courts of the city of New York, the family court of the state of New York within the city of New York, the supreme court in the counties of New York, Bronx, Kings, Queens and Richmond and of all vehicles employed in the transportation of prisoners who have been sentenced, are awaiting trial or are held for any other cause.
3. Charge and management of persons or any other institution of the city placed under his jurisdiction by law.
4. All authority, except as otherwise provided by law, concerning the care and custody of felons, misdemeanants and violators of local laws held in the institutions under his charge.
5. All authority in relation to the custody and transportation of persons held for any cause in criminal proceedings and all prisoners under arrest awaiting arraignment who require hospital care, including those requiring psychiatric observation or treatment, in any county within the city.
6. General supervision and responsibility for the planning and implementation of re-training, counseling and rehabilitative programs for felons, misdemeanants and violators of local laws who have been sentenced and are held in institutions under his charge.
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