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 employed within the confines of the controversial facility that they are being assaulted and face life-threatening dangers on a daily basis. Hunkering down at the […]
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 working conditions inside the city’s notorious prison. Standing in front of the Francis R. Buono Memorial Bridge, which leads to the city’s jail complex, representatives […]
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 ‘worst job in the world’ after they were forced to work multiple shifts, control violent inmates single-handedly and stay in cramped conditions during the pandemic. […]
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 for the NYPD in recent years. Hizzoner agreed with DOC head Vincent Schiraldi’s blunt assessment to The Post that morale is “very low” within the […]
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 has learned. The correction officer, whose name was not disclosed, suffered an ugly gash to his face and other cuts and bruises after detainee Luis […]
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 judgment immediately. In the meantime, we will continue fighting to ensure that this illogical policy change is reversed immediately. If you have further questions or […]
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 combat the severe staffing crisis at city jails. Now, correction officers must undergo a medical exam every time they say they’re unable to fill a […]
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 hospital staff within 24 hours of calling out or be subject to disciplinary proceedings. The president of the Correction Officers’ Benevolent Association, Benny Boscio, denounced […]
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 a correction officer’s shift notes, he logged it with his own observations as the jail grapples with a staffing crunch that has left residents unsupervised […]
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 and failing to provide adequate protective gear at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. The suit comes as the department faces considerable scrutiny over inmate […]