By C1 Staff
ALBANY — The union that represents New York correctional officers is incensed by the fact that the Department of Corrections won’t confirm any correctional officer injuries during recent incidents at two state prisons.
The MidHudson News reports that the New York State Corrections Officers and the PBA Association has sought to confirm who was injured at incidents at the Sullivan Correctional and Fishkill Correctional facilities.
When the DOC declined to confirm, Vice President for Law Enforcement John Harmon said the state didn’t care about its officers.
“The mentality today is – it’s a very liberal way of thinking – is we don’t care about those who are protecting you, we only care about those being protected, which means we keep the inmates and these patient-inmates safe from themselves, safe from other staff, safe from other inmates or patients, and when they act out and we get assaulted, it’s amazing how the agencies don’t put any credence into what has happened to us,” he said.
Harmon cited the injury of three correctional officers at Sing Sing last month, when an inmate grabbed and choked one officer and injured two others as they subdued him, as an example of what correctional officers deal with on a daily basis.