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| NYSCOPBA pushing for more staffing in state prisons |
| By wivb.com- Jenn Schanz |
| Published: 05/25/2016 |
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BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB)- Jim Ambrose doesn’t remember much from November 3, 2011. “He got his hands around my neck and he choked me until I passed out,” he recalled. Ambrose was working as a Corrections Officer at Orleans Correctional when a 17-year-old inmate assaulted him. He suffered a concussion and a serious neck injury, which has caused him to be on long-term disability. “The department has actually taken some steps to make things safer for the job itself, but the bottom line is, the inmate that the men and women who work in the facilities deal with every day is a more violent inmate,” said Western Region VP of the New York Correctional Officers and Police Benevolent Association or NYSCOPBA, Joe Miano. Read More. |
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