The de Blasio administration’s plan to bring in programming staff to counsel troubled teens at Horizon Juvenile Center has the Correction Officers and social service employees unions questioning why it won’t deploy the Youth Development Specialists trained to work with the former Rikers inmates instead.
Elias Husamudeen, president of the Correction Officers Benevolent Association, said that about 40 of his members were out because of injuries they sustained breaking up fights at Horizon, which is jointly run by the Department of Correction and the Administration for Children’s Services. He said that additional Correction staff have not been brought in to replace the hurt officers.
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