Posted on 04/21/2017 9:21:21 PM PDT by Olog-hai
The nation’s largest municipal jail guard union sued New York City on Friday, saying recent sweeping changes in city’s jails have empowered violent inmates and endangered correction officers.
The lawsuit in Manhattan federal court alleged violence in city jails has increased 18 percent since the city instituted changes to how guards perform their work following a rash of alarming reports about the abuse of prisoners, particularly at the city’s main Rikers Island jail complex, where as many as 10,000 inmates are housed.
The city and its officials have “created a substantial and imminent risk that Correction Officers will continue to be seriously injured — or even killed,” the lawsuit said.
In the lawsuit, the Correction Officers’ Benevolent Association seeks changes to the work environment for guards and unspecified damages. …
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Can you imagine what it must be like to face 10,000 inmates every day? The place must be a zoo.
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The dope from Park Slope.
Hate to break it to you boys and girls, but Mayor DiBlasio is only too happy to see this happen.
Governor Cuomo couldn’t give a care less either.
Suggest you dust off those resumes.
One must be ready-made for that job.
I only deal with 1500 a day and that is quite enough, thank you very much.
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Been there, done that. Watch your back!
2 years and change to go. That is if my back holds out. Currently that is a 50/50 proposition. Looking for a second career as a firearms instructor and maybe start gunsmithig classes. We’ll see. Enjoy your retirement. I know you earned it.
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Where the zoo and the animals switch places, you can bet on it, its worse than you can imagine
A lot of that job can go to the robots.
They are advertising big time for Corrections staff jobs here. Those gigs pay nothing and I can’t blame anyone for not wanting to take them. I was a poor state employee once myself.
Can you not take one of the prisoners out and shoot them as an example for the others to behave?.... : )
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