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RIKERS ISLAND — Five correction officers were convicted of attempted gang assault on Tuesday in the brutal 2012 beating of an inmate at the city jail.

O'Donnell, a former public defense attorney, who often visited clients in New York City's jails, also in the letter expressed concern that the newest corrections officers are placed on the 3 to 11 PM shift, when most of an unusually high number of incidents involving assaults occur.

The claims are on the rise at a time when the city is pouring money into trying to reform Rikers Island, spending $ 112,000 per inmate a year and boosting its budget with a plan to hire more correction officers.

Scrapping the payout would save the city an estimated $ 1 billion a year — «the equivalent cost of more than 10,000 teachers, police officers, firefighters, sanitation workers, and correction officers,» Bloomberg told legislators on Monday.

Off topic questions included a Department of Investigations report detailing problems with corrections officers at Rikers Island, de Blasio's message to protestors resuming anti-NYPD protests, his relationship with police unions, a call by the head of the Lieutentants Benevolent Association to strengthen laws concerning resisting arrest, an increase in police protection for Jewish organizations and sites and Dov Hikind's claim of a decrease in police presence, delays in the implementation of the City's municipal ID card program, his message to PBA members dissatisfied with their union leadership, his position on a city council plan to fund the purchase of additional bullet - proof vests for police officers, whether the Democratic National Committee has expressed concerns around the recent protests as it considers whether to hold the 2016 convention in Brooklyn, whether his «thoughts» on the anti-NYPD protests have «evolved» and whether he will direct the NYPD to change its FOIL request process to accept email or other electronic requeCity's municipal ID card program, his message to PBA members dissatisfied with their union leadership, his position on a city council plan to fund the purchase of additional bullet - proof vests for police officers, whether the Democratic National Committee has expressed concerns around the recent protests as it considers whether to hold the 2016 convention in Brooklyn, whether his «thoughts» on the anti-NYPD protests have «evolved» and whether he will direct the NYPD to change its FOIL request process to accept email or other electronic requecity council plan to fund the purchase of additional bullet - proof vests for police officers, whether the Democratic National Committee has expressed concerns around the recent protests as it considers whether to hold the 2016 convention in Brooklyn, whether his «thoughts» on the anti-NYPD protests have «evolved» and whether he will direct the NYPD to change its FOIL request process to accept email or other electronic requests.

Mr. Seabrook, the colorful leader of the Correction Officers Benevolent Association, has been called by some a roadblock to reform at the city's jails on Rikers Island.

«You're putting that jail in the south Bronx across that bridge right here or you're putting it down the street on 125th Street somewhere or you're putting it in Bedford Stuyvesant or you're putting it in Red Hook,» said Norman Seabrook, president of the New York City Correction Officer's Benevolent Association.

As Gov. Andrew Cuomo signals he's supportive of closing down Rikers Island in favor of a more modern and smaller jail in New York City, the Correction Officers» Benevolent Association is glad the talk is focusing in part on safety of the guards.

On a rainy afternoon at the Rikers Island Jail Complex in New York City this week, five men and one woman wearing tan uniforms sat in front of chess boards surrounded by an audience of correction officers and fellow inmates.

Norman Seabrook, president of the New York City Correction Officers» Benevolent Association, applauded Stringer's focus on strengthening the middle class, and said he was taken by his message.

Seabrook, standing on the steps of City Hall, was flanked by several dozen correction officers, city and state elected officials, and a recent de Blasio critic, Rep. Hakeem JeffrCity Hall, was flanked by several dozen correction officers, city and state elected officials, and a recent de Blasio critic, Rep. Hakeem Jeffrcity and state elected officials, and a recent de Blasio critic, Rep. Hakeem Jeffries.

The city plans to hire professional «motivators» to teach correction officers how to be kinder and gentler to young inmates on Rikers Island.

The head of the city's largest correction officers» union called the plan to shutter Rikers Island a total fantasy on Tuesday — saying it is «long on rhetoric and short...

Norman Seabrook — the disgraced former president of the city corrections officers» union who skated on criminal bribery charges in a mistrial last month — just scored another win Monday when a Manhattan federal judge tossed the related civil suit against him.

Danielle Leigh reports on two New York City correction officers speaking out about recent Rikers attacks.

Speaking from a packed high school auditorium in the South Bronx, Mark - Viverito proposed a far - reaching overhaul of Rikers Island to bring it to the point of closing down and a plan to scrap old warrants from New Yorker's records — policies that could put her ahead of Mayor Bill de Blasio's administration on justice reform and in direct conflict with the city's powerful correction officers» union, the court system and the police department.

If the first day of Norman Seabrook's trial on federal corruption charges was any indication, the fear and loyalty that Seabrook, the former president of New York City's correction officers» union, instilled in his members remain undiminished.

Seabrook stood on the steps of City Hall and slammed the mayor and the commissioner — he called for Ponte's firing — after a correction officer was slashed on the job.

While the population of the city's jails is lower than ever, there has been an increased focus on them, following news stories about brutality at the hands of correction officers, a rise in inmate - on - inmate violence, efforts to end or reduce solitary confinement and a federal lawsuit that alleged a «culture of violence» in the city's jails.

One key figure in the ongoing efforts to reform the city's Department of Correction amid several high - profile deaths and lawsuits, Correction Officers Benevolent Association President Norman Seabrook, is not on the panel.

He held a press conference savaging the mayor and his correction commissioner on the steps of City Hall after a correction officer was badly slashed in the face, and has pushed back hard against many of de Blasio's efforts to bring reforms to Rikers Island to overcome what Bharara deemed, in a separate investigation, a culture of violence by guards against inmates.

BW was the only press present when dozen of Westchester Correction Officers converged outside Mount Pleasant City Hall on Thursday, August 7th.

The no - limit credit card was just one of the many gifts regularly lavished on board members of the city Correction Officers» Benevolent Association, including electronics and gift certificates, in apparent violation of New York state laws regarding public servants, board members told The Post.

Correction Officers» union chief Norman Seabrook was busted by the feds Wednesday morning on corruption charges in connection with a sweeping corruption probe focusing on the NYPD and City Hall, law enforcement sources said.

Flanked by a host of uptown elected officials that included Assemblymember Gabriela Rosa, Councilmembers Ydanis Rodríguez and Mark Levine, as well as Harlem political activist Vincent Morgan and New York City Correction Officers» Benevolent Association President Norman Seabrook, 70th Assembly District Leader Marisol Alcantara, and placard - bearing residents, Espaillat expounded on the importance of unity.

(At the time, people briefed on the matter have said, the focus was on Philip Banks III, then the highest - ranking uniformed officer, and Norman Seabrook, the head of the city correction officers» union.)

Hizzoner also continued to insist that the jails «are safer» since Ponte came on three years ago, despite city statistics showing that the rate of assaults against correction officers and among inmates has increased during his tenure.

Norman Seabrook, the president of the New York City correction officers» union, leaving Manhattan's Federal District Court after an appearance on Wednesday.

As federal agents tell it, the kickback scheme that led to the arrest on Wednesday of Norman Seabrook, the powerful leader of the New York City correction officers» union, was hatched one night in late 2013 in a hotel room in the Dominican Republic.

At 1 p.m. Monday at City Hal, the correction officers union will hold a press conference «following the vicious attack on a correction officer by two Rikers inmates.»

«At a time when assaults on correction officers are rising, while punishments to assaultive inmates are declining, Mayor Bill de Blasio has left New York City for Iowa today to begin his political pursuit of winning the presidency,» said Elias Husamudeen, President of COBA.