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texts from the December 1988 issue of Correction News The following is the full text of Correction Commissioner Richard J. Koehler's column that appeared on Page 2 of the newsletter's December issue. It was mostly devoted to reviewing departmental developments during 1988. As 1988 ends and the New Year begins, I would like to take this
opportunity to thank all of you for your outstanding performance during an extremely challenging year.
Your dedicated
service has become this agency?s trademark and it makes
being your Commissioner very rewarding.
As employees of this department, you have expertly managed unprecedented growth this year.
This represents
a 20% increase since January. In the month of September, the population increased by 1,300 inmates which prompted an emergency
declaration to accommodate the influx.
Our capacity at the beginning of the year was 14,782 and in just
over 11 months, the capacity has grown to 1 7,022.
We have added
more beds to the system than ever before in the history of the agency.
The second ferry, The Bain, with a 162-bed capacity opened in
March. Also in March we started placing the inmates on our first barge,
the Bibby Venture.
The Rose M. Singer Center with a 783-bed capacity opened in June.
The two upstate jails opened in late summer enhancing our capacity by 1,400 beds.
In addition to a record inmate population increase and record
capacity increase, this has been a record year of other major accomplishments.
This is an innovative, progressive
program that will enable us, for the first time, to place detention inmates
in work, education and drug treatment programs outside our jails.
We
have trained and graduated 30 correction officers for this challenging
assignment. We congratulate these officers and I am confident that they
will make this program a resounding success.
The field training officers program initiated this year to provide
assistance for the newer officers with less than three years on the job,
promises to be effective in training and developing staff during the coming year and beyond.
We estimate that violence
system-wide will continue to decline even further in 1989 as a result of
a better managed inmate discipline system.
We congratulate the family support group, athletic committee and
morale committee for the outstanding contribution they made this year.
We were able to involve families, especially children, of employees in
more events than ever before. Again we are confident that these groups
will continue to help in reducing stress on your jobs.
This message comes to you via the newsletter which premiered in
May and has been received with enthusiasm.
Through the Morale Committee, we are establishing a special
column for inquiries and concern from the field. I urge you to utilize this
vehicle as a means of creating more communications between the jails
and central office.
Address your inquiries and concerns to Correction News, Morale
Committee, c/o Deputy Commissioner Ruby Ryles, 60 Hudson
Street, 6th Floor, NewYork, NY 10013. Broad-based inquiries and concerns will be addressed in the newsletter, others will be addressed
individually.
I am sure all of you join me in thanking Mayor Edward Koch for his
strong support during the year.
He also spent time addressing residents? concerns about their community being a target of our expansion programs. The mayor also continued to be in support of our
budget this year, which is immeasurably helpful to us.
I wish all of you and your families the Merriest Christmas and the
Happiest New Year.
The following is the full text of the front page story of "Correction Officers Bearing Gifts" to needy children, with its accompanying Santa photo, in NYC DOC 's 1988 December newsletter issue:
Bearing Gifts
Many children in the New York City area will be delighted
this season when correction officers and a personal
friend ? Santa Claus ? come knocking at their doors. They
will be bearing gifts donated by the staff and local
businesses.
The officers,
who have identified these needy children, are determined
to see that they will not be ignored this Christmas.
The Correction Guardian Association for years has given
toys and gifts to children in the pediatric wards of area
hospitals.
Funds are raised for this project at the association's
annual Christmas and Kwanzaa party. It will be held Sunday, December18 from 7 P.M. to 1 A.M. at the Pyramid
Entertainment Complex, 89-25 Merrick Boulevard,
Jamaica, Queens.
"We?ve been giving toys to children in hospitals for 33
years;" said Deputy Warden Ali al-Rahman, president of the
association. ?In fact we're doing something a little different
this year. We?re taking toys to the Bureau of Child Welfare
in the Bronx."
"If they (the bureau] can?t
find a bed for them in the city, they come back and spend
the night [in the office]," said Dep. al-Rahman, who works
at the Manhattan House of Detention for Men. "They?re not
bad kids. They?re just caught up in the system!"
The Guardians also plan to visit Harlem and Bellevue
Hospitals in Manhattan, Kings County Hospital in Brooklyn,
Elmhurst Hospital in Queens and Bronx Lebanon Hospital.
Two borough commands and a Rikers Island facility plan
similar projects for the city?s children.
The Adolescent Reception Detention Center plans to give
toys to homeless children. Officers from the Brooklyn
House of Detention for Men will accompany Santa Claus
on some rounds again this year.
They have done so at Kings
County Hospital for the past two years. The Brooklyn Correctional Facility will join them. "We?re not just locking people up," said Officer Jerry Greene of Brooklyn House. "We
do care!"
In 1987, Officer Salvatore Macchia was Santa Claus. This
year the officers stopped by other areas of the Kings County Hospital. "We had so many toys that we gave to families
visiting sick children," said Officer Greene, "and we went
to the pediatric emergency ward." About three hundred officers each had given a new toy.
"Their visit in the rehabilitation center, however, was the
most gratifying," Officer Greene said. "They were really surprised. The joy they showed. The response to Santa Claus.
Whereas in the pediatric ward the kids expressed some
doubt, to them this really was Santa Claus!"
The following is the full text of the NYC DOC 1988 December newsletter issue Page 2 story of "Public Service Awards" given in Manhattan and Brooklyn to NYC DOC personnel. Awards Manhattan's Best
Officers James Arancio, John Bonilla Jr. and
Edward Gavin on December 6 will represent
the Department of Correction in the Third
Annual Uniformed Services Awards program
in Manhattan.
The program will be held at
10 A.M. at the [NY Telephone] company?s headquarters, 1095
Avenue of the Americas at 42nd Street, 23rd
floor in the auditorium.
Officer Arancio, Special Operations Division, and Officer Gavin, Operations Division, on April 17 at about 1 P.M. assisted an elderly man who had been hit by
a truck. The victim, 81-year-old Sam Mancuso, had a head wound and was bleeding
profusely. Officer Arancio fashioned a compress from his jacket to stop further loss of
blood while Officer Gavin radioed for help.
The officers accompanied Mr. Mancuso to the Beekman Downtown Hospital,
whose representatives said that they saved
the victim?s life. Mr. Mancuso recovered from
his injuries.
On July 27 Officer John A. Bonilla Jr., Anna
M. Kross Center, was driving on East 50th
Street near Fifth Avenue. His five-year-old
son, John A. Bonilla III was with him.
Officer
Bonilla heard a bang sound and saw through
his rear view mirror a man with a gun
running toward his car. The man, later identified as Angel Santiago, Richmond Hills,
Queens, dived through his car window and
placed a gun in the officer?s face. Officer
Bonilla grabbed Mr. Santiago and fired four
shots from his revolver. Mr. Santiago was hit
and later died. He was escaping the scene of
an attempted robbery of a video camera
from tourists visiting St. Patrick?s Cathedral.
Brooklyn's Best
Officer James Palozzolo, Anna M. Kross
Center, was the department?s honoree at the
Eighth Annual Uniformed Public Service
Awards held October 24 at the New York
Telephone Company, 101 Willoughby Street,
Brooklyn.
On July 21, 1987 at about 9:45 A.M. on
60th Street and 18th Avenue Officer Palozzolo heard an explosion coming from the
direction of 51st Street and 18th Avenue.
The
officer went to the site of the explosion where
three buildings had collapsed. Officer Palozzolo immediately looked for victims and
noticed fingers sticking out of the debris in
front of 5005 18th Avenue.
He removed the
debris and saw a man pinned under a metal
plate that covered his upper torso. Officer
Palozzolo and a firefighter who arrived soon
after the officer was on the scene removed
the victim who survived the ordeal.
For these acts of dedication to community
service and selflessness these officers represent the department in Manhattan and
Brooklyn and are the recipients of the Public
Service Awards. These awards are sponsored
jointly by the New York Telephone Company
and the borough presidents.
The following is the text of the NYC DOC 1988 December newsletter's masthead on Page 2 -- staff, source, nature, regularity and address of publication, etc. It appeared below a black and white version of the NYC DOC shield logo against a gray background. 
Edward I. Koch
NEW YORK CITY
Richard J. Koehler
Ruby Ryles
Dell Omega Grant-EDITOR
CORRESPONDENTS Michael Dickson
Ernest Bowser
German Duhois
Levora Bacon
Deborah Moody
Henry J. Boykins
John Evans
Raymond Bethea
Janet Everett
Maria Zabala
Carolyn Gibson
Kevin Butler
Jerry Salley
Nicholas Varounas
Debora Dyre
Bernice Ashley
Nelson Pagan
Gloria Fisher
Penny Davis
Juanita M. Murray
Deborah Hunter
Dennis McCormick
Evangelio LaPorte
Correction News is an official publication of the New York City Department of Correction. It is produced by the Department's public affairs office and is published monthly. Address letters and inquiries to the editor, Department of Correction, Public Affairs, 60 Hudson Street 6th Floor, New York, New York 10013-4393. The following are images of the photos and the full text of the various individual "news notes" snippets appearing under the top-of-the-page graphics Around Correction and Correction People on Page 3 of the December 1988 issue of the NYC DOC monthly Correction News
The Holidays For Children For Families C-73 (formerly the Correctional Institution
for Women) will hold Family Day, Monday,
December 5. Activities -- buffet, games,
entertainment and a tour of an inmate housing unit -- will begin at 6 P.M.
The Family Support Group will sponsor a
special event for children in February.
Details: Dr. Natalie Hannon, 1-212-266-XXXX.
La Lay DeIa Salsa, a 12-piece band composed of correction officers from the Hispanic Society, will entertain inmates two evenings in December at the House of Detention for Men and the Brooklyn Correctional Facility. Sponsored by Canada Dry.
The North Facility will have Santa Claus and toys in the visitor?s area. The Queens House of Detention for Men will have toys paid for by Macy?s. Manhattan House of Detention for Men will have an Inmate Family Day on December 16. The Salvation Army, will donate toys to the Brooklyn Correctional Facility. It will host a party for the inmates and their families, a religious service and carol singing. Parties Central Office will hold its annual Christmas party on December 16 at 31 Chambers Street from 5:30 to 9 P.M. Hot buffet, beverages and music by Dilligard from Manhattan House. On the same day the Health Management Division, 59-17 Junction Boulevard in Queens, will have a grab bag for gifts and a party for staff. The House of Detention for Men will have a party for its staff on Friday, December 16, at the Crystal Palace and Oyster Bay Caterers, 31-01 Broadway in Astoria, Queens. $35. Manhattan House of Detention's staff party is on December 20. The Correctional Institution for Men will hold its Christmas party December 22 atthe Marriott Hotel at LaGuardia Airport. Open hot buffet and beverages. Starts at 9 P.M. $35. Program Services will also have a party at the chapel building on Rikers Island. Call Ms. Landon, 1 -718-956-XXXX. The Assistant Deputy Warden Association and the Captains Association will sponsor a joint Christmas membership party Wednesday, December 14 at Antun's Restaurant, 9643 Springfield Boulevard, Queens Village, 7-11 P.M. Smorgasboard. Contact Donald Cranston, 1 -212-227-XXXX.
The Columbia Association will give its annual party for members Monday, December 12. The Correction Guardian Association, Inc. will hold its annual Christmas and Kwanzaa party Sunday, December 18 from 7P.M. to 1 A.M. at the Pyramid Entertainment Complex, 89-25 Merrick Boulevard in Jamaica, Queens. Your donation helps to buy toys for children in city hospitals. Advance tickets by December 14, $10; at the door, $15. The Emerald Society will give its annual Christmas party December 16 at O?Hara?s, 46th Street and 30th Avenue in East Elmhurst, Queens, from 6-9 P.M. Sandwiches, salads, beverages, $5 to cover. Open to all Correction staff. And finally, what has the Support Services Division been cooking up lately? Carrot cakes for everyone. Word is that they are finger -licking good. Around Town 50?s Doo-Wop If you are a correction staff member with a second career as performer, artist or photographer, we invite you to list your shows around town with the Correction News Editor. Contact your correspondents for entry forms or write to: Editor?Around Town, Department of Correction, Public Affairs Office, 60 Hudson Street, 6 Floor, New York, N.Y 10013-4393. Moving On
Retirements This is the second retirment for Mr. Brown who has spent all of his career in food ser- vices. Mr. Brown worked for the railroad for 21 years ? the Pullman Co. from 1942-59 and New York Central, 1959-63, after railroad began to operate the Pullman sleeping cars. Now that Mr. Brown has retired again, will he seek a third job? No, he said. After 46 years of hard work, Mr. Brown said he planned to rest. Mr. Brown lives in Hollis, Queens. The Correctional Institution for Men and the Rose M. Singer Center hosted a retirement party for Deputy Warden Frank Gallo. The party was held at Ricardo?s, 21-01 24th Avenue in Astoria, Queens, Monday, November 7. Condolences These are the ones To the families and friends and Alice Pettigen, retired, who died October 23. Funeral services were held at the Convent Avenue Baptist Church in Manhattan. On the same day Officer Louis Di Pretoro, retired, died. Funeral services were held at Our Lady of Guadalupe Roman Catholic Church in Brooklyn; Ella Cooper, mother of Officer Laura Cooper of the Brooklyn Correctional Facility, who died October 30. Services were held at The House of Hills Funeral Home in Brooklyn.
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