The Correction Officers Benevolent Association last week escalated its conflict with the de Blasio administration over violence and other problems in the city’s jails, this time condemning Department of Correction management as ineffective and calling for the resignation of Commissioner Cynthia Brann.
“You and your managers are failing at your fiduciary responsibilities,” the union’s president, Elias Husamudeen, said in an Aug. 12 letter to Ms. Brann. “My members deserve better and you have a legal and moral obligation to provide better. Perhaps, we are at a crossroads where you can no longer function in your role.”
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