COBA PRESIDENT BENNY BOSCIO JOINS DAN MANNARINO ON PIX11 MORNING NEWS
NEW YORK — Days after the Correction Officer’s Benevolent Association (COBA) filed a lawsuit against the New York City Department of Correction over “inhumane” working conditions at city jails, COBA President Benny Boscio Jr. spoke with the PIX11 Morning News. Boscio broke down the details behind the “deplorable” conditions alleged in the lawsuit. The lawsuit came […]
PUBLIC WORKERS GIVEN PROTECTIONS FOR VIRUS-RELATED ABSENCES
Correction officers tagged as chronic absentees by the city’s Department of Correction because they were laid up by the coronavirus will no longer be subject to retaliatory personnel actions, under legislation signed by Governor Cuomo July 1. State Sen. Diane Savino and Assemblyman Peter Abbate Jr. drew up the bill following reports that hundreds of […]
HUNDREDS OF NYC CORRECTION OFFICERS ARE JUMPING SHIP TO THE NYPD
City correction officers are so desperate to escape their jobs in the Big Apple’s jails that hundreds have recently joined the NYPD, The Post has learned — as even the Department of Correction’s commissioner conceded that morale is “very low.” The newest class of 555 NYPD recruits that was sworn in during a ceremony Thursday […]
CUOMO SIGNS BILL PROTECTING PUBLIC EMPLOYEES OVER COVID-RELATED ABSENCES
ALBANY — Public employees in New York are now protected from being punished for COVID-related absences. Gov. Cuomo signed legislation Thursday that prevents government employers from dismissing or taking disciplinary or personnel actions against a public worker who fell ill with the virus. That includes hundreds of New York City correction officers who were left […]
DE BLASIO TOUTS END OF SOLITARY CONFINEMENT IN NYC JAILS
Making his announcement on national television Wednesday, Mayor de Blasio will end solitary confinement at Rikers Island this fall — as part of a broader plan to change the way discipline is meted out in city jails. “Solitary confinement corrodes the human soul and creates immense mental health challenges,” de Blasio said on CNN. “It […]
NYC CORRECTION OFFICER ASSAULTED AT RIKERS ISLAND JAIL SUFFERS FRACTURED RIB, INJURIES TO FACE AND HEAD
A city correction officer suffered a fractured rib, a busted lip and sustained injuries to his head and eye after an inmate assaulted him at a Rikers Island jail, officials confirmed on Tuesday. Durel Bonilla — who was being held at the Otis Bantum Correctional Center on kidnapping, assault and weapons possession charges, court records […]
HOMETOWN HERO: NYC CORRECTION OFFICER JESSICA DAVIS AIMS TO HELP HER GLOBAL FAMILY
It began with another mother’s tears. “I saw a mother crying on TV,” said Correction Officer Jessica Davis, founder and head of the New York City Department of Correction Disaster Relief Association. The mom was cuddling her brain-damaged baby, a casualty of the ongoing contaminated water crisis in Flint, Mich. “It tore my heart to […]
CRISIS ON RIKERS ISLAND [STREET SOLDIERS]
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