A recently released report on the city's Workers' Compensation costs is helping the Correction Officers Benevolent Association make its case that the de Blasio administration’s less-restrictive policies on inmates are making the jails more dangerous for its members.
In 2014, Department of Correction employees filed 3,560 Workers' Comp claims and the city paid out just over $3 million in lost wages and medical expenses. In 2017, more than 5,000 work-injury claims were filed with the DOC and the city paid out in excess of $5.3 million in lost wages and medical costs.
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