COBA SUES SEEKING TO HAVE VACCINE MANDATE STRICKEN AS UNFOUNDED
Claiming that the effect of the de Blasio administration’s vaccine mandate is to penalize its members who have been inoculated against the coronavirus as well as those who haven’t, the Correction Officers’ Benevolent Association Dec. 8 filed a lawsuit in Manhattan Supreme Court seeking a permanent injunction against it being enforced. Two days later, Justice Shlomo […]
‘WE’VE HAD OFFICERS CUT WITH SHANKS.’– CHAOS INSIDE RIKERS ISLAND SURGES, REPORT SAYS USE OF FORCE REMAINS HIGH
The situation inside Rikers Island is getting even more dire, according to those inside the jail’s walls. “We’ve had officers cut with shanks. It has been a very dangerous situation for us, ” said Benny Boscio, president of the Correction Officers Benevolent Association. The union president says correction officers have been used as scapegoats for […]
NYC CORRECTION OFFICERS UNION SUES CITY OVER VACCINE MANDATE
The union representing the city’s correction officers sued City Hall on Wednesday in hopes of halting the “draconian vaccine mandate” that has exacerbated the agency’s staffing crisis. Hundreds of officers who refused to get the jab by last week’s deadline have been sent home — and the suit also seeks to undo the city’s order requiring […]
CORRECTION OFFICERS’ UNION SUES NYC OVER VACCINE MANDATE
NEW YORK (AP) — A coronavirus vaccine mandate for the city’s jail workers should be blocked, the union representing the workers said in a lawsuit filed Wednesday that calls for a return to allowing regular virus testing and blasts the city-required 12-hour shifts that were implemented in anticipation of mandate-related staffing shortages. In the lawsuit, […]
COUNCIL RESOLUTION, STATE BILL PROPOSED TO UPGRADE CHARGES FOR GROPING AND HARASSING CORRECTION OFFICERS
Groping a city correction officer would add more time to a prisoner’s sentence under a bill to be proposed Thursday by a Queens city councilwoman Councilwoman Adrienne Adams, a Democrat, wants to raise the charge of forcible touching where a correction officer is the victim from a misdemeanor to a felony punishable by more than […]
NYC CORRECTION UNION LEADERS, DETAINEE ADVOCATES DISPUTE CITY CLAIM THAT RIKERS JAIL VIOLENCE IS DECLINING
Leaders of uniformed correction officers’ unions and advocates for detainees expressed surprise Thursday at the city correction commissioner’s claim that violence at Rikers Island jails has dropped in recent months. “There is a persistent and quite horrific pattern of violence persisting in our jails,” Legal Aid lawyer Mary Lynne Werlwas said at a hearing Thursday […]
NYC CORRECTION OFFICER ATTACKED IN RIKERS JAIL, SUFFERS DEEP GASH TO HEAD
A correction officer who has been working constant 16-hour days at Rikers Island for the past year was jumped by a detainee and beaten, suffering a severe gash on his forehead. The 31-year-old officer was working in a housing unit in the island’s Anna M. Kross Center on Monday about 3 p.m. when he was […]
GANG MEMBER ALLEGEDLY BEHIND RIKERS ISLAND FIRE, DOC SOURCES SAY
A Trinitarios gang member was allegedly responsible for the fire on Rikers Island that injured eight and quickly engulfed a housing unit in “dark and heavy smoke,” according to Department of Correction sources and records. The blaze broke out about 8:15 p.m. Friday after an inmate splashed his dinner in the face of a correction officer, who […]
FEMALE WORKERS AT RIKERS ISLAND REVEAL SEX ASSAULTS BY INMATES
One female correction officer at Rikers Island walks around the troubled jail complex with her back to the wall after a male inmate grabbed her rear end. Another wakes up in cold sweats, reliving the assault and attempted rape by one of her charges. She’s contemplated suicide. The two women, single moms in their 30s, returned to […]
QUEENS COUNCILWOMAN CALLS FOR INCREASED PENALTIES ON SEXUAL ASSAULTS, HARASSMENT AGAINST CORRECTION OFFICERS
As the humanitarian crisis on Rikers Island has claimed the lives of 14 incarcerated individuals already this year, Councilwoman Adrienne Adams joined the executive board of the Correction Officers’ Benevolent Association, including its president Benny Boscio, on Oct. 25 to announce new legislative actions to deter the ongoing sexual assaults and harassment perpetrated against correction […]