The head of the correction officers' union slammed Mayor de Blasio's plan to shut down Rikers Island, saying it makes no sense to put jails in city neighborhoods. "They want you to take your 5-year-old granddaughter and walk by a jail, so you can explain to her what these barbed wires are, and what this place is, and why it is there as she is going across the street to her school," Correction Officers' Benevolent Association president Elias Husamadeen said Sunday on the John Catsimatidis AM 979 radio show.
