§ 87. Definitions. As used in this article, the following terms shall have the following meanings:

1. "Alternate correctional facility" shall mean a correctional facility designed to house medium security incarcerated individuals as defined by department rules and regulations, which is owned by the city of New York, operated by the department pursuant to the rules and regulations promulgated by the commissioner and in accordance with the operation agreement as defined in subdivision five of this section, and used for the confinement of eligible incarcerated individuals, as defined by subdivision four of this section.

2. "Panel" shall mean the alternate correctional facility review panel established pursuant to section eighty-nine-e of this article.

3. "Construction agreement" shall mean an agreement entered into pursuant to section eighty-eight of this article by the commissioner and the city of New York which governs the construction of two alternate correctional facilities of approximately seven hundred beds each, one at Ogdensburg and one at Cape Vincent, New York.

4. "Eligible incarcerated individuals" shall mean incarcerated individuals of a New York city correctional facility who are at least nineteen years of age, who are serving a definite, but not an intermittent, sentence of imprisonment, and who do not have criminal charges pending against them.

5. "Operation agreement" shall mean an agreement entered into pursuant to section eighty-eight of this article by the commissioner and the city of New York which governs the operation of one or both alternate correctional facilities and addresses all related issues, including, but not limited to, general staffing levels and nature of staffing positions; composition of medical staff; availability of outside medical services; procedures and criteria for selecting eligible incarcerated individuals; availability and frequency of transportation of incarcerated individuals and visitors of incarcerated individuals to such facility; availability, content and frequency of programming for incarcerated individuals; mechanisms to establish, monitor and review operating and capital expenditures; and legal representation of both incarcerated individuals and employees of such facilities.