Ordered that the judgment is affirmed, with costs.
The petitioners failed to demonstrate that their respective injuries were incurred in the performance of special work related to the nature of heightened risks and duties to which correction officers are exposed in the criminal justice process, and that such injuries are compensable under General Municipal Law § 207-c (see Matter of Balcerak v County of Nassau,
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