After a string of officers at Rikers Island were assaulted by inmates, culminating with the slashing of a Correction Officer a day earlier, the Correction Officers Benevolent Association rallied outside City Hall Aug. 16 to demand that Mayor de Blasio reinstate punitive segregation for younger inmates and separate gang members in order to make jails safer.
“You’re setting us up to be killed inside these jails,” said the union’s president, Elias Husamudeen. “We’re here because the New York City jail system has a gang problem, and our Mayor and our Commissioner won’t acknowledge it.”
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