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Elias Husamudeen, president of the Correction Officers Benevolent Association, has been a correction officer for 29 years.
A reform advocate, a former inmate and the head of the correction officers union discussed where the reforms of Rikers stand, whether they go far enough and what’s driving the surge in violence.
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