US EditionNew York prison guards indicted in connection with an inmate's death during 22-day strike, governor says
- Multiple New York prison guards faced indictments Tuesday related to an inmate death, Hochul stated.
- A wildcat strike by officers protesting working conditions created a crisis in the state's prisons.
- Messiah Nantwi, serving a five-year sentence, died March 1 at a hospital after an incident at Mid-State Correctional Facility.
- Hochul called Nantwi's death at the hands of correction officers "deeply disturbing."
- Eleven officers are suspended; seven resigned after the death, and a special prosecutor will present developments to a judge.
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New York prison guards indicted in connection with an inmate's death, governor says
Multiple New York prison guards have been indicted in connection with the “disturbing” death of an inmate last month during a wildcat officers’ strike, Gov. Kathy Hochul said Tuesday. Messiah Nantwi, a prisoner at the Mid-State Correctional Facility, died at a hospital March 1 following what other prisoners said was a severe beating by several guards. At the time, the state’s prisons were in a state of crisis caused by the walkout of thousands o…
New York prison guards indicted in connection with an inmate’s death during 22-day strike, governor says
Multiple New York prison guards have been criminally indicted in connection with the “disturbing” death of an inmate last month during a wildcat officers’ strike, Gov. Kathy Hochul said Tuesday. Hochul announced the grand jury indictments in the death of Messiah Nantwi, a prisoner at the Mid-State Correctional Facility near Utica, a day before the prosecutor was due in court for an unspecified “noteworthy development.” The governor did not say h…
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NY prison guards indicted in connection with an inmate's death, governor says
New York's governor says multiple prison guards have been criminally indicted in connection with the “disturbing” death of an inmate last month during a wildcat officers’ strike.
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