Two more five-day extensions keep the Department of Correction operating under a state of emergency declared in September 2021.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani signed two more emergency executive orders in late June extending a Department of Correction state of emergency that has run without a break since September 2021, according to official public records reviewed by NYC In Focus.
Emergency Executive Order No. 1.33, dated June 19, and No. 1.34, dated June 24, each extend the order five days at a time — the same short-leash mechanism that has let the agency sidestep compliance with unspecified “various laws and regulations” for going on five years. Neither order names a single law being suspended.
The orders lean on an implementation action plan first directed in January 2026, meant to walk the department back toward compliance. Each new extension orders DOC, working with the Law Department, to keep reporting to the Mayor on which suspensions can finally be lifted as that plan proceeds. The emergency itself — first declared under the previous administration and now inherited — remains open.
What the filings don’t answer is the obvious question: what has kept the city’s jail system under emergency governance long enough that a five-day extension reads as paperwork. The orders cite the pending plan and little else.
NYC In Focus has requested the full compliance plan referenced in the orders and will update this story when it is received.