IMPORTANT UPDATE ON THE VACCINE MANDATE: IT IS TIME TO END THE VACCINE MANDATE FOR ALL NYC PUBLIC EMPLOYEES!!
Please read the following important update from COBA President Benny Boscio Jr. regarding the vaccine mandate for all NYC public employees. Click here to view detail
‘I’M DONE’: RIKERS OFFICERS QUITTING IN RECORD NUMBERS
“We’re in a state of crisis right now,” said Benny Boscio Jr. of the Correction Officers’ Benevolent Association. “This year alone we’ve lost 600 officers due to the same thing, resignations and retirements. We’re getting assaulted, there’s no consequences, this is our sad reality.”
CITY COUNCIL TO HOLD HEARING ON PUNITIVE SEGREGATION
“Any death in our custody is very tragic, and our hearts go out to the family, but look, the City Council has no one else to blame but themselves,” Boscio told Errol Louis on “Inside City Hall” Monday night. “We have been defunded for years.
COBA President Benny Boscio On Good Day New York
Safety is a top priority in our jails. The elimination of solitary confinement will only encourage violent inmates to commit attacks and crimes. Here’s a clip of COBA President Benny Boscio on Good Day New York explaining how important this issue is to our members.
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 […]
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 […]
COBA PRESIDENT BENNY BOSCIO ON IN YOUR COURT WITH THE NEW YORK STATE SUPREME COURT OFFICERS ASSOCIATION
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 […]
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 […]
FEDERAL MONITOR: JAILS TEEMING WITH ‘DISORDER AND CHAOS’
A “pervasive high level of disorder and chaos” is plaguing city jails, according to a Federal watchdog. In a status report addressed to a U.S. District Judge, Steve Martin, the monitor charged with cataloging the Department of Correction’s efforts to mitigate what for decades has been one of the nation’s most stubbornly violent jail systems, […]