Section 89-E. Alternate correctional facility review panel

1. The alternate
  correctional  facility  review  panel  is  hereby  established and shall
  consist of the commissioner, the chairman of  the  state  commission  of
  correction,  the  chairman  of  the board of parole, the director of the
  division of probation and correctional alternatives, the commissioner of
  correction of the city of New York, the president of the New York  State
  Sheriffs'   Association  Institute,  Inc.,  and  the  president  of  the
  Correctional Association of New York or their  designees.  The  governor
  shall appoint a chairman and vice-chairman from among the members.
    2.  The  panel shall be authorized to enter and inspect at any and all
  times each alternate correctional facility or any part thereof and shall
  have access to all books,  records  and  data  pertaining  to  any  such
  facility within the possession of the department relating to subdivision
  three of this section.
    3.  The  panel shall examine whether alternate correctional facilities
  should continue to be utilized, whether all steps practicable have  been
  taken  by  the  city  of New York toward finding alternatives to housing
  eligible inmates in alternate  correctional  facilities,  including  the
  construction  of correctional facilities within the city of New York and
  the development of alternatives to incarceration, and whether there  has
  been  compliance with all applicable laws, rules and regulations and the
  operation agreement.
    4. The panel shall prepare an annual report which shall be filed  with
  the  governor,  the  mayor  of the city of New York, the chairman of the
  senate crime and correction committee, and the chairman of the  assembly
  committee  on  correction  no  later than the first day of March of each
  year.