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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
CRISIS ON RIKERS ISLAND [STREET SOLDIERS]
Here at the COBA, we value the professionalism, commitment, passion, honesty, courage, safety and service of our brother & sister officers patrolling the toughest precincts in New York City, with honor and pride.
A New Era Begins!
