The head of the city Correction Officers’ union March 31 slammed the Department of Correction for failing to provide protective equipment and supplies to his members as the coronavirus threatens to besiege correctional facilities.
“This department is failing Correction Officers, it’s failing the inmates and most of all it’s failing the city,” Elias Husamudeen, the president of the Correction Officers’ Benevolent Association, said during an afternoon press conference near the bridge leading to Rikers Island.
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