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The leader of the state corrections officers union is urging members to boycott the Watertown Daily Times and the newspaper published a story last Thursday on abuse allegations at a northern New York prison.

Mayor Bill de Blasio's office did an abrupt about - face Wednesday over plans to use the Queens Detention Complex as an additional Department of Corrections training facility, after receiving sharp criticism from the correction officers» union and key Queens officials, who say they were never briefed on the decision.

Mayor Bill de Blasio unveiled today his solution to the ongoing conflict over pension payouts to cops, firefighters, corrections officers and sanitation workers hurt on the job — but union leaders said they remain unsatisfied.

Correction Officers» union chief Norman Seabrook was busted by the feds Wednesday morning on corruption charges.

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 requests.

Attica Correctional Facility has been on lockdown since Sunday following a series of fights among prison inmates, according to a statement released yesterday by the state corrections officer union.

Norman Seabrook, who has led the Correction Officers» Benevolent Association since 1995, was arrested at his home in the Bronx on fraud charges for allegedly accepting a bribe in exchange for investing millions in union funds in a hedge fund.

De Blasio's argument focused on the need to build additional facilities — a point also raised by the president of the correction officers» union last week, who called Mark - Viverito's plan a «fantasy.»

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.

The leader of the state corrections officers union is urging members to boycott the Watertown Daily Times and the newspaper published a story Thursday on abuse allegations at a northern New York prison.

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.

Banks, Rechnitz, Reichberg and Banks's longtime friend, Norman Seabrook — head of the correction officers union and an early de Blasio supporter — went on numerous trips together in 2014.

Norman Seabrook, the president of the Correction Officers Benevolent Association, the largest union in the department and a frequent critic of Mr. de Blasio's reform agenda, praised the mayor for spending money on the department and bringing it «into the 21st century.»

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.

The New York Civil Liberties Union released a report on Tuesday that shows the psychological effects of solitary confinement not only on inmates, but also on their family members, visitors, and correction officers.

(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.)

Banks and his buddy, corrections officers union chief Norman Seabrook, were the first law enforcement officials to come on the feds» radar, sources said.

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.»

The correction officers» union, which was harshly critical of Mr. Ponte even before he became commissioner, offered a withering assessment of his tenure on Friday.

The success of the new security measures could depend in large part on the response from the correction officers» union and its president, Norman Seabrook.