Despite Mayor de Blasio's statement last April that it had been "a horrible mistake" to make Correction Officers work triple shifts to compensate for staff shortages, the leader of the officers' union asserted Feb. 18 that it has become a regular feature in the jail system and is undermining the health of his members.
Starting three months ago, Correction Officers' Benevolent Association President Benny Boscio said in a phone interview, the Department of Correction resumed the triple shifts because it failed to get city funding to hire new officers at a time when many were leaving the system, hundreds of others are out with the coronavirus and the jail population continues to increase.
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