Sentences with phrase «after a correction officer»

The reversal came hours after the Correction Officers» Benevolent Association president Norman Seabrook released a statement slamming a plan to use the Kew Gardens complex as an additional facility to train the next class of recruits — which happens to be the largest trainee class in the history of the department with more than 600 members.

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.

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.

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Curran, a former corrections officer and firearms instructor, started Bullet Blocker after the Virginia Tech shooting.

Our county boards of election are strapped right now,» Flanagan told reporters after speaking at a rally in Albany for the corrections officers union.

The state Correctional Officers and Police Benevolent Association slammed Cuomo's plan to make it easier to fire state corrections officers, criticizing its announcement less than two days after the savage beating of a New York City correction Officers and Police Benevolent Association slammed Cuomo's plan to make it easier to fire state corrections officers, criticizing its announcement less than two days after the savage beating of a New York City correction officers, criticizing its announcement less than two days after the savage beating of a New York City correction officer.

An Auburn inmate wanted to frame a corrections officer after a homemade weapon was found in the inmate's pocket, the district attorney's office said.

Suffolk County Employees, other than sworn police or correction officers, are categorized as either management employees, meaning that they serve at the pleasure of their designated supervisor, or are civil servants protected by collective bargaining agreements and are members of the Association of Municipal Employees (herein after A.M.E.).

An Oneida County correction officer was severely injured Sunday after opening an explosive package sent to his Old Floyd Road home in the Town of Floyd.

The union, one of the most powerful in the city, had called for Ponte's resignation after he fought to end the use of solitary — a move the union argued would only endanger correction officers» safety.

Rikers Island spiraled into chaos after last week's storm hit, with as few as three people running its Emergency Operations Center, correction officers forced to work triple shifts and roads so blanketed with snow that an ambulance was delayed in transporting a prisoner who later died, sources revealed.

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.

Serious injuries to correction officers from inmate violence spiked 68 percent in the first six months after a new jails commissioner took command, city figures show.

Yesterday, the mayor visited a facility on Rikers and met with correction officers and staff, a meeting that was closed to press — four days after he unveiled the roadmap.

Several attorneys for the correction officers declared that they would appeal the case immediately after their clients» sentences were handed down by Justice Steven Barrett.

It was known in town circles that Quigley took issue with the town Republican committee over filling the vacancy for town clerk after Jason Cosenza resigned earlier this year to take a position as a corrections officer with the sheriff's department.

Correction Officers Benevolent Association President Norman Seabrook after the meeting.

Sources and records show Rechnitz became a cooperating witness for the feds after he was snared in yet another bribery case involving Norman Seabrook, the head of the city Correction Officers union, who allegedly received $ 65,000 in bribes in exchange for funneling $ 20 million in union funds into a hedge fund operated by a friend of Rechnitz's, according to sources and court documents.

City taxpayers will shell out $ 3.8 million to settle a lawsuit brought by the family of an inmate who died when Rikers Island correction officers failed to get help after...

The union representing state correctional officers slammed Gov. Cuomo's plan to make it easier to fire guards, criticizing its announcement less than two days after the savage beating of a city correction officer.

A corrections officer who worked at Rikers Island has been sentenced to six years in prison after being found guilty of ordering inmates to beat up two teenage prisoners in 2007.

A dome was originally scheduled to be installed in the park back in October 2011, but the project was destroyed by Department of Correction officers after it floated over to Rikers Island.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo ordered state authorities to assist with an investigation into an incident in which a state corrections officer was injured after opening a suspicious package at his Oneida County home.

NYC Correction Officer's union chief Norman Seabrook will run unopposed for reelection after a Manhattan judge tossed out a suit filed by a potential opponent — who said he was unfairly barred from the ballot.

Seabrook's arrest came just one day after five corrections officers were convicted of assault charges for the savage beating of a Rikers Island inmate in 2012.

The state corrections department named a new superintendent for the Fishkill Correctional Facility in Beacon — Robert Cunningham — and vowed to review «safety concerns» after the April death of a prisoner who inmates said was handcuffed and badly beaten by a group of corrections officers.

Also at 11:15 a.m., de Blasio holds a press conference after visiting Rikers Island to thank correction officers for their service, Otis Bantum Correctional Center, 16 - 00 Hazen St., East Elmhurst, Queens.

Serious injuries to correction officers from inmate violence spiked 68 percent in the first six months after a new NYC jails commissioner took command, city figures show.

A 27 - year - old corrections officer at Midstate Correctional Facility in Marcy, was charged with first - degree attempted promoting prison contraband, a felony, after allegedly trying to sneak drugs into the prison.

Rikers Island spiraled into chaos after last week's storm hit, with as few as three people running its Emergency Operations Center, correction officers forced to work triple shifts and roads so blanketed with snow that an ambulance was delayed in transporting a prisoner who later died.

Rikers Island, never a garden spot, devolved into a seething snakepit after the mayor settled a federal suit in 2015 by effectively stripping corrections officers of the ability to maintain order in coherent, predictable ways.

After being arrested on federal corruption charges, Norman Seabrook, president of the Correction Officers Benevolent Association, exits United States District Court for the Southern District of New York on June 8, 2016.

And one of the businessmen implicated in the NYPD scandal is already cooperating with the FBI after he was snared in a bribery scheme involving Norman Seabrook, the now - former president of the city correction officers» union who received $ 65,000 for channeling $ 20 million in union money into a hedge fund run by a friend.

Norman Seabrook, president of the Correction Officers» Benevolent Association, delivered a searing critique of Mark - Viverito's proposals almost immediately after she delivered them, calling her plan to possibly shut down Rikers a «fantasy.»

Correction Officer William Valentin's lawyer, Phil Seelig, wrote a letter to Commissioner Joseph Ponte claiming the jails boss has intentionally denied Valentin access to campaign at city lockups until after May 18, less than two weeks before ballots are mailed out.

Denise Prell, a civilian worker at Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora, was arrested Wednesday for sexual abuse, promoting prison contraband and misconduct after a multi-agency investigation, launched when a corrections officer spotted her with an inmate.

After being suspended from his correction officer job by the city, he's also been removed from his union post, replaced by Elias Husamudeen, who had been his second in command.

The longtime president of the Correction Officers Benevolent Association and frequent opponent of efforts to reform Rikers Island was arrested this morning on charges of wire fraud after an investigation by U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara.

Platinum Partners is considering buying out a $ 20 million investment from the New York City correction officers» union, weeks after a former executive at the hedge fund and the union's ex-president were charged in an alleged bribery scheme.

A Rockland County corrections officer appeared in court today after authorities say he provided drugs to prostitutes in exchange for sexual favors.

A Times investigation published in July 2014 found that 129 inmates were seriously injured, requiring hospitalization, in an 11 - month span in 2013, after altercations with correction officers.

The lawsuit followed a letter from the Cuomo administration last week to close certain areas, after a group of teens sneaked from a cell with a broken lock and jumped a correction officer.

The investigator, Florence L. Finkle, is leaving less than a month after a damning federal inquiry chronicled assaults on teenage inmates by guards at Rikers, and criticized the division she oversaw as «ineffectual,» «understaffed» and biased in favor of correction officers.

After being accused of cursing at a corrections officer, Jessica Concepcion, seven months pregnant, spent the Christmas of 2006 in solitary confinement at Bedford Hills, New York's maximum - security prison for women.

MAYVILLE - A corrections officer at the county jail has been arrested after an investigation revealed he allegedly had sexual contact with a female inmate.

Plaintiffs John Cocuzza, Jacquelin Millien, Greg Esposito, Stefan Tchor, Larry Lans and Melissa Seminara, Rockland County Corrections Officers and members of the Correction Officers Benevolent Association of Rockland County, or «COBARC» allege that after he was re-elected in 2015, Falco retaliated against them by filing disciplinary charges against them for publicly supporting his opponent, Richard Vazquez.

Correction officers say they are still in shock after Gov. Andrew Cuomo's prison agency announced late on a July Friday - and with very little advance warning - their decision to close four prisons within the next year.

This summer, after several correction officers were arrested for contraband smuggling, Mr. Ponte, Mr. Seabrook and Mark G. Peters, the Investigation Department commissioner, discussed improving security.

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

The man charged with the two sexual assaults at NCCC last summer, DeJuan L. Hunt II, 25, of Niagara Falls, died Aug. 29 in Niagara County Jail, nine days after a fight with corrections officers.