Benny Boscio’s stands on punitive segregation, on Rikers Island, on the causes of violence in city jails and their remedy, among other pressing issues, don’t markedly differ from those of Elias Husamudeen, his predecessor as president of the Correction Officers’ Benevolent Association.
But he hopes his tenure diverges in one significant aspect from that Mr. Husamudeen, whom he outpolled by a margin of nearly three to one in June to assume leadership of the roughly 8,500-member union. Those “hardcore issues,” he said, need to be addressed in a different way—transparently.
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