Almost every month, the city's Board of Correction meets. But at its scheduled meeting on Tuesday, correction officials did not show up.

"We had asked the commissioner to present today an articulation of his overall plan to reduce violence and make jails safe, and also his plan for GRVC,” Board of Correction acting chairman Julio Medina said. “We wanted to ask the commissioner. The commissioner's not here."

The no-show, according to the department, was because those officials had a meeting scheduled with the jail’s federal monitor.

"The commissioner has offered to meet with the board this afternoon after the public meeting, or tomorrow afternoon, to discuss the items included on the BOC’s meeting agenda," the department said in a statement.

But the absence comes amid another controversy.

Last week, the Department of Correction sent the board a letter requesting its approval to limit the amount of out of cell time for detainees in general population at its most dangerous facility, known as GRVC.

It wanted to reduce the hours from 14 down to seven. The department argued it had to do this to create a safe facility.

Since June, half of the stabbings and slashings on Rikers have occurred at GRVC, which stands for the George R. Vierno Center.

The proposal immediately sparked controversy.

Within days, though, the request for the board's approval was rescinded. A spokesperson for the department told NY1 it believed it had the power to move forward with the plan on its own because of emergency executive orders issued by the mayor.

"This is not something that is going to wait a month or two,” Dr. Robert Cohen, who is on the board, said. "There are going to be serious consequences of the lock in policy."

This is not the first dispute between the two agencies this fall. The commissioner criticized the board's leadership during the height of COVID-19 in an interview with NY1 at GRVC last month.

"There was no accountability here for a long time and that includes our oversight bodies," Louis Molina, the department's commissioner, said. "For nearly two years, nobody visited this place from our oversight bodies and that was not helpful."

A department spokesperson told NY1 after the board’s meeting on Tuesday that it was moving forward with its plan for GRVC.

"The safety and wellbeing of our staff and people in custody is our highest priority. Due to multiple incidents at the GRVC, many involving gang affiliated detainees, the agency is moving forward with a violence reduction plan to quell acts of violence in the facility," a department spokesperson said in a statement.

While the department moves forward with this plan, the City Council is currently considering legislation to ban the use of solitary confinement on Rikers Island.

Some advocates have likened the department’s plan for GRVC to that type of isolation.