Rikers Island is in crisis. The number of inmates has soared. Jailers are being forced to work triple and quadruple shifts, according to sources.

The City Council’s answer Thursday was to promise to hold a hearing next month, while passing legislation that ordered the embattled Department of Correction to offer pricey doula services to pregnant inmates — and find the money for it in its own budget.

The bill, led by Councilwoman Helen Rosenthal (D-Manhattan), requires the DOC to hire a contractor to provide doula visits to pregnant inmates in the complex twice a week, four hours at a time, in addition to making them available for deliveries upon request.

The hearing, meanwhile, was slated this week for Sept. 15.

“We do have that hearing coming up, but we also think that women that are currently incarcerated deserve the right to a doula while they’re detained,” said Council Speaker Corey Johnson during his regular press conference before the voting got underway. “We think you can do that while, at the same time, having the upcoming oversight hearing.”

Sources close to mounting crisis on Rikers assailed what they described as the Council’s mismatched priorities.

“The fact that this is the only legislative initiative coming out right now, in light of what’s going on, is eyebrow raising,” said one corrections source. “This better be the most watched hearing in the history of the Council.”

“Weird priorities,” added a jail official. “This hearing three weeks from now is a long time away considering how bad the crisis is on the island. Intake pins are overflowing and violence is at an all-time high.”

Officials at the Department of Corrections told the Council that the requirement would cost the agency more than $55,000 a year.

However, the Council argued that the agency did not need additional funds to cover the expense and could find the funds in its current budget.

Sources said that pregnancies and births were rare on Rikers, but officials were not immediately able to provide current figures for either.

Doula services are pricey and can run as high as $5,000 in New York, though the average expense is about $1,500, a 2019 report by the Department of Health found.

Those costs are not usually covered by insurance and recent reports said that only 6 percent of American women have access to doulas.

Rosenthal countered that the costs are worth it as more than just pregnant women on Rikers would benefit from the service.

“They help a larger group of women with all sorts of de-stressing techniques that will ultimately help them when they give birth, sometime down the road, if they have already given birth and have an infant at home, or should they give birth on Rikers Island,” she said.”