A dispute last week between City Councilman Daniel Dromm and the head of the city’s largest correction-officer union about solitary confinement has led to a call for punitive sanctions—in the form of the Queens lawmaker's resignation.
The exchange between Mr. Dromm and Correction Officers’ Benevolent Association President Benny Boscio started typically enough, if a tad testily, during the Council’s Dec. 11 Criminal Justice Committee hearing on legislation sponsored by the Councilman that would curtail the use of inmate isolation in city jails.
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