The city Correction Officers’ union can dispute in arbitration a Department of Correction rule that allows the housing together of inmates considered dangerous with those not thought to pose a threat, the city’s Board of Collective Bargaining has ruled.
The Correction Officers’ Benevolent Association had contended that the housing of minimum- and medium-security inmates with maximum-security prisoners in a Rikers Island jail violated the department’s own rules.
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