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A correction officer at Clinton Correctional Facility was hospitalized with facial injuries following a violent assault by an inmate in the prison’s mess hall, according to a statement released Friday ...
A Clinton Correctional Facility officer had to be transferred to a local hospital and treated for facial injuries after being ...
Two other correction officers stepped in to help restrain the inmate, and they suffered minor injuries in the scuffle, ...
Man wrongfully imprisoned for 32 years sues authorities who put him there World's Tallest Teen, 7-foot-9 Center Olivier Rioux ...
May 9—Despite Gov. Kathleen C. Hochul's pledge not to rehire any of the 2,000 corrections officers her administration fired in March at the end of a 22-day wildcat strike, the state Department ...
DOCCS, NYSCOPBA spar over meeting request one month after correction officer strike Robert Harding The Citizen, Auburn (TNS) Apr 12, 2025 Updated Apr 18, 2025 ...
NYSCOPBA has been vocal about the need for improvements to ensure safer working environments and better treatment for correctional officers well before COVID hit in 2020.
More than 10,000 corrections officers at prisons across New York are back on the job after a three-week strike.
Corrections Officers have begun returning to work at Auburn Correctional Facility, which could signal an end to the weekslong prison strike ...
The union, NYSCOPBA, stated that the negotiations “ended poorly due to the State’s refusal to ensure that health insurance coverage would be made retroactive to the date of the first AWOL for ...
Unsigned memos on NYSCOPBA executive board letterhead circulated later that night urging the membership not to accept that deal, because it did not return health insurance coverage retroactively.
Because NYSCOPBA, the union representing New York's corrections officers, was not involved in making that deal, the union said the deal is illegal and would not sign off on it.