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COBA PRESIDENT BENNY BOSCIO ON INSIDE CITY HALL 4.27 BLASTING PROPOSED FEDERAL TAKEOVER OF RIKERS
CORRECTIONS UNION DOESN’T WANT FEDS TO TAKE OVER RIKERS ISLAND
COBA PRESIDENT BENNY BOSCIO ON THE JOE PISCOPO SHOW
EXTENDED INTERVIEW WITH PRESIDENT BOSCIO ON FOX 5 NY’S STREET SOLDIERS
TODAY ON CATS AT NIGHT: COBA PRESIDENT BENNY BOSCIO JOINED THE SHOW
NYC NEEDS MORE RIKERS OFFICERS TO MAKE UP FOR THOSE CRITICS SAY WRONGLY CALL IN SICK, SAYS MAYOR ADAMS’ CORRECTION CHIEF
Mayor Adams’ jail chief has a solution to the problem of city correction officers who critics say exploit union rules by calling in sick: Hire more of them. At a City Council hearing Wednesday, Correction Commissioner Louis Molina signaled that he will ask for as many as 2,000 new officers to solve the staffing crisis at […]
RETIRED RIKERS ISLAND WARDEN: WHO’S MONITORING THE FEDERAL MONITOR?
A lawyer and national corrections expert tapped by a federal judge to monitor violence in New York City jails is only making the longtime problem even worse, a retired Rikers Island warden told The Post. Steven Bastian, who left the Department of Correction in 2020 after 31 years of service, said he believes court-appointed monitor […]
MAYOR ADAMS, IT’S TIME TO END WASTEFUL SPECIAL MONITORS
Despite spending almost $111 million, city agencies under federal and state oversight have failed to resolve a host of problems that landed them under the scrutiny of court-appointed monitors and special masters, The Post reports. These court-imposed schemes have cost New Yorkers a small fortune. The city and courts need to find a way to end […]
CORRECTION OFFICER SAYS RIKERS INMATE SEXUALLY ASSAULTED HER: ‘I STILL HAVE NIGHTMARES’
A Rikers Island correction officer says an inmate violently tried to molest her — making her one of nearly two dozen jail workers sexually assaulted there in just over a year, according to her union. The officer, who asked to remain anonymous out of concerns for her safety, recently told The Post that she was […]