Marcy, N.Y. — An inmate has filed a lawsuit alleging that corrections officers beat him last fall in a Central New York prison, two months before two of the same guards and other officers were ...
Nantwi’s cellmate, the only incarcerated witness in the room as guards allegedly killed the 22-year-old, speaks out for the ...
Recently in New York State, prison guards, largely to counter media exposés of their brutalities—like the beating death of ...
Nine former correction officers have been charged in connection with the death of Robert Brooks, whose death was ruled a homicide due to compression of the neck and multiple blunt impact injuries.
DOCCS staff members have been identified as persons of interest in the investigation of the death of 22-year-old Messiah ...
The state legislature will soon be undertaking a comprehensive review of the state prison system, coming after the high-profile killing of Robert Brooks by corrections officers at an Oneida County ...
The state attorney general’s office has recused itself from the investigation of the beating of Messiah Nantwi, who died Saturday after a “use of force” by correction officers at at Mid-State ...
The State Police said Monday they have opened an investigation into the death of a man in an upstate prison following a reported altercation Saturday with correction officers as the now ...
His death followed the December killing of Robert Brooks, 43, at Marcy Correctional Facility, across the street from Mid-State. Ten officers have been criminally charged in Mr. Brooks’s death.
The head of the state prison system repeated the vow he made after Robert Brooks' death to "not allow violence to become normalized in our facilities." "Our thoughts and prayers are with the ...