Correction Officers’ Benevolent Association (COBA)
Our team at JOEY JACKSON LAW, PLLC., cares deeply about protecting the rights of New York’s Boldest. We proudly represent our Corrections Officers in all matters relating to discipline. Every job saved, every hour fought for, every member cared for, so that our officers can keep patrolling the toughest precincts in New York.
Read the inaugural issue of the COBA Newsletter COBA Newsletter entitled “Boldest News: A New Era Begins!” which was published in November 2020. You may also learn more about COBA on their website: www.cobanyc.org/.
Boldest News – The Boldest Hero Edition: COBA Proudly Salutes & Honors Our Boldest Heroes
Follow the links below to read about how COBA involvement is making changes for the better.
- COBA head: New DOC commissioner’s recovery plan doesn’t go far enough
- NYC Corrections Union Leader Sues for ‘Inhumane Treatment’ of Officers
- Overworked, under-protected, dangerous for officers and inmates.
- ‘Denied meals, bathroom breaks, water,’ correction officers’ union sues city, state over jail conditions
- Union sues Department of Corrections over ‘hostile and extremely unsafe’ work conditions
- Correction officers union sues department over working conditions
- N.Y.C. Jail Officers Sue Over Working Conditions: ‘It Was Hell’
- NYC correction officers union sues city over hostile, ‘inhumane’ conditions in jails
- NYC DOC Commissioner resigns as union slams leadership as ‘darkest chapter’ for agency
- No New Jails? Next Mayor Could Scrap de Blasio’s Close-Rikers Plan
- NYC Department of Correction Commissioner Cynthia Brann to step down: union
- NYC Department of Correction Commissioner Cynthia Brann to resign
- Rikers Staff Sick Call Spike Spurs Lockdown, Trapping Mentally Ill in Cells
- NYC corrections officer sues to get gun back after bizarre crash incident
- Rikers officers claim they’re told to work 24-hour shifts without breaks, food or water
- New York lawmakers approve bill that would bring solitary confinement to a halt
- NYC jails gear up to end use of solitary confinement: officials
- COBA president talks unacceptable conditions as corrections officers forced to work overtime
- Bloods gang member knocks out Rikers Island guard’s front teeth, union says
- Rikers inmate knocked out correction officer’s teeth: union
- Four correction officers beat up by Bloods gang member at Rikers
- Four Rikers Island officers and captain injured by inmate in ‘totally unprovoked’ attack
- COBA: 4 Correction Officers Injured in Inmate Attack at Rikers Island
- City Council Moves to End Solitary Confinement
- Career criminal slashes New York City correction officer, captain in Thanksgiving scuffle
- DOC officers slashed in gory ‘Tombs’ clash with inmate: officials
- Could Coronavirus Also Be Increasing on Rikers Island?
- COBA president: Overcrowded jails create a COVID-19 threat
- New York City judge approves temporary order to pause plans to shutter The Tombs, Rikers Island jail
- New bill would prevent NY government workers from being punished for coronavirus-related absences following Daily News report
- DOC Classification of 400 Officers As Chronic Absentees Under Scrutiny
- New York City inmate at Rikers Island stabs city correction officer in the hand during gang fight amid rising tensions among the Crips
- $9B plan to replace Rikers with borough jails delayed due to New York City’s cash-crunch
- As New York City jails become more violent, solitary confinement persists
- New York City Department of Correction unveils plan to shutter ‘The Tombs’ and a jail on Rikers Island
- Rikers Island warden sought mentoring program that paired locked up gangsters with youth offenders
- Judge blocks plan to replace Manhattan Detention Complex with new jail
- DC 37 Agrees to Defer Benefit-Fund Payments Under No-Layoff Deal
- Monitor: Use of Force in Jails Rose Despite Big Reduction in Inmates
- Prisoner of his expectations: How Bill fumbled the Rikers replacement plan
- Correction officers’ union endorses GOP candidate Malliotakis for House seat
- Family members, corrections officers urge New York to avoid another virus surge in jails, prisons
- COBA president talks DOC’s management of COVID-19 in jails
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