COBA President Benny Boscio Jr. appeared on Inside City Hall to call out the issues with the proposed federal takeover of Rikers. Boscio said that the outcome of staffing shortages and failed administration policies has been “eight years of neglect” by the previous Mayor. Additionally, Boscio said Rikers Island Commissioner Louis Molina should be given an opportunity to “fix the problem,” citing that the three prior commissioners had no prior “jail experience.”
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The Correction Officers Benevolent Association and its president, Norman Seabrook, filed a wide-ranging lawsuit against the city last week charging that it was violating state law by failing to provide COBA members with a safe place to work.
It began as a “dream” on Thursday, in a speech by the New York City Council speaker: closing the Rikers Island jail complex.
A city inmate who was supposed to be in solitary confinement after attacking a correction officer ambushed that same jail staffer again just four days later, breaking his nose.
