RIKERS ISLAND CORRECTIONAL OFFICERS AND MEDICAL STAFF RALLY IN QUEENS FOR SAFER CONDITIONS
Healthcare workers and correctional officers gathered near the Queens side of the Rikers Island Bridge on Monday in protest of the incarceration facility’s poor conditions and dangerous work environment. Staff […]
CORRECTIONS OFFICERS CALL FOR BETTER CONDITIONS ON RIKERS
Over 200 current and former correctional officers, Department of Corrections doctors and nurses, police officers and elected officials gathered at the entrance to Rikers Island on Monday to demand better […]
THIS IS THE WORST JOB IN THE WORLD’: HOW HUNDREDS OF NYC CORRECTIONS OFFICERS HAVE QUIT TO JOIN THE NYPD AFTER BEING FORCED TO WORK BACK-TO-BACK PRISON SHIFTS
Hundreds of New York city correction officers are quitting their jobs to join the NYPD in a huge exodus amid ‘very low morale’ in the prison service. Former officers branded it the […]
DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTION HAS ‘REAL ISSUES,’ DE BLASIO ADMITS AMID GUARD EXODUS
The city’s Department of Correction has “real issues to be addressed,” Mayor Bill de Blasio admitted Monday — the day after The Post exclusively reported how hundreds of fed-up guards have departed […]
RIKERS ISLAND INMATE STEALS CORRECTION OFFICER’S CELL KEY, SLASHES RIVAL: SOURCES
A Rikers Island correction officer was ambushed Thursday by an inmate who badly beat him before stealing his keys to slash a rival in a neighboring cell, the Daily News […]
URGENT POLICY UPDATE
Last month, DOC unilaterally decided to change their Sick Leave Regulations without consulting our unions. It is our collective hope that NYC Dept. of Correction Commissioner Schiraldi begin showing competent […]
NYC JAIL GUARDS MUST PROVE THEY’RE SICK TO DOCTORS UNDER NEW CORRECTION DEPARTMENT POLICY
Correction officers calling in sick must now prove they’re under the weather to a doctor. The new policy imposed by Correction Department Commissioner Vincent Schiraldi is the latest measure to […]
COBA: DOC’S SICK-DAY PROTOCOLS ‘DISGRACEFUL’
In an effort to reduce what Commissioner Vincent Schiraldi has said is a high number of unverified sickouts, the Department of Correction will require correction officers to be evaluated by […]
RIKERS INMATE STEALS OFFICIAL LOG BOOK — TO COMPLAIN ABOUT ‘OUTRAGEOUS’ LACK OF GUARDS
Rikers Island inmates are looking for guards in all the wrong places. A desperate inmate stole an official log book over the weekend and instead of it being filled with […]
CORRECTION UNION SUES CITY OVER ‘UNSAFE’ CONDITIONS AS DOC CHIEF RELEASES PLAN TO ADDRESS COMPLAINTS
The city’s jail officers union sued the Department of Correction this week, alleging that officers are being forced to work in “unsafe and unhealthy working conditions,” including 20-plus hour shifts […]