CATS AT NIGHT: COBA PRESIDENT BENNY BOSCIO JOINS THE SHOW
RIKERS COS DESCRIBE SEX ASSAULT IN BID TO BRING BACK SOLITARY CONFINEMENT
Two female correction officers are detailing their harrowing experiences of attempted rape and sexual assault at the hands of Rikers Island inmates in a push to reinstate solitary confinement at the troubled lockup. The Corrections Officers’ Benevolent Association put out a new radio spot Thursday slamming City Council members who are pushing for a bill that would […]
THE ARTHUR AIDALA POWER HOUR 2-2-22
FEMALE COS ASK ALBANY TO CURB SEX HARASSMENT
City female correction officers are hopeful that recently introduced state legislation will provide a measure of deterrence and reduce incidents of sexual harassment and other crimes by inmates. Bills in both houses in Albany would amend the penal law and increase the potential punishment for many forms of sexual assault inside city jails. The legislation […]
WHAT IS ERIC ADAMS’S PLAN FOR THE RIKERS ISLAND CRISIS?
Afew weeks before Eric Adams took office as mayor of New York, two of his advisers, Philip Banks and Timothy Pearson, who both, like Adams, once served in the N.Y.P.D., sat down for a meal at a Queens diner with the commissioner of the Department of Correction, Vincent Schiraldi. “I think there’s a way out of this,” […]
CORRECTION OFFICERS’ UNION SEES EARLY WINS UNDER ADAMS ADMINISTRATION
The de Blasio administration did not have the best relationship with the city’s correction officers’ union. But in two weeks, that’s all changed. “To state that I am placating, those who know me know I do not placate,” said Mayor Eric Adams. “I respect union workers.” Adams says a change in direction on Rikers Island […]
ERIC ADAMS VOWS TO IMMEDIATELY REVERSE DE BLASIO BAN ON SOLITARY CONFINEMENT
Mayor-elect Eric Adams introduced the city’s new jail boss on Thursday — and warned the inmates on Rikers Island to start behaving because he plans to immediately reverse outgoing Mayor Bill de Blasio’s policy against solitary confinement. “The mayor announced, Dec. 31 he’s going to empty out punitive segregation,” Adams said. “They better enjoy that one-day reprieve because […]
DUCKING BLAME FOR RIKERS
A lawsuit brought by the Correction Officers’ Benevolent Association seeking to block enforcement of Mayor de Blasio’s vaccine mandate against its members is a reminder that efforts by him and Correction Commissioner Vincent Schiraldi to blame the holdout officers for the personnel shortage that led to a recent order putting COs on regular 12-hour shifts […]
COBA PRESIDENT BENNY BOSCIO ON IN YOUR COURT WITH THE NEW YORK STATE SUPREME COURT OFFICERS ASSOCIATION
NYC CORRECTION OFFICERS SUE OVER DE BLASIO’S COVID-19 VACCINE MANDATE, WORK CONDITIONS
The union representing New York City correction officers, the department known as the city’s “boldest,” took a stand Wednesday against Mayor Bill de Blasio’s “draconian” vaccine mandate and subsequent dangerous work conditions by filing a lawsuit against the city demanding that the jab policy be halted. Benny Boscio Jr., the head of the Correction Officers Benevolent Association, told the […]