The city’s plan to close the Manhattan Detention Center downtown and a Rikers Island facility by the end of November is “a recipe for disaster” given the potential for a second wave of the coronavirus to sweep through the city, the head of the Correction Officers’ Benevolent Association, Benny Boscio Jr., said.
His counterpart at the Correction Captains’ Association, Patrick Ferraiuolo, agreed, saying that despite the reduction in the prisoner population, any consolidation “poses a real danger to staff as well as inmates.”
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