NEWS: 11 prison staff have been placed on administrative leave following the death Messiah Nantwi, 22. 9 inmates said he was viciously beaten by prison guards. He had been handcuffed + shackled, his face bloodied + swollen. He “was not recognizable.” nytimes.com/2025/03/02/nyr…

NEWS🚨: Governor Kathy Hochul said on Tuesday that 15 corrections department employees had been put on leave in connection with the death of Messiah Nantwi, a 22-year-old inmate in a medium-security prison in central New York. (story w/ Liam Stack) nytimes.com/2025/03/04/nyr…

BREAKING🚨: For the second time in three months, the office of New York’s attorney general, Letitia James, said it was recusing itself from investigating the death of a prisoner whom other inmates said was brutally beaten by guards: nytimes.com/2025/03/06/nyr…

BIG NEWS: The New York Attorney General's Office said in a request for recusal “that as many as NINE corrections officers caused the death of Messiah Nantwi or committed acts that contributed thereto, and thereby committed a crime.” nytimes.com/2025/03/06/nyr…

Not a word about: 1. sexual harassment allegations 2. nearly $30M & counting of taxpayer money spent to defend Cuomo & aides 3. personally overseeing a misleading account of nursing home deaths - ny1.com/nyc/all-boroug… - ny1.com/nyc/all-boroug…

NYC’s government has been rocked by corruption scandals at a pace not seen in nearly a century. Yet over the past few years, NY leaders have presided over a gradual weakening of the city’s No. 1 corruption-fighting agency, the Department of Investigation: nytimes.com/2025/04/06/nyr…

The Onondaga District Attorney in a news release said a “noteworthy development” in the investigation into the death of Messiah Nantwi will be announced in court tomorrow. Last month The New York Times broke news that Messiah died following a brutal beating by prison guards.

2 Guards Charged With Murder in Beating Death of Prisoner in New York nytimes.com/2025/04/16/nyr…

“By the time of his August 2021 resignation, Cuomo had cut about 770 beds in OMH psych centers statewide, a 19% reduction, and 275 beds in NYC a 17% reduction.” nydailynews.com/2025/05/25/cuo…

New🚨: Rikers Island guards stood by as Michael Nieves bled out onto the floor after cutting his throat with a razor. Their inaction, a medical examiner said, contributed to his death. We obtained video of what went wrong, making it public for the 1st time nytimes.com/2025/07/14/nyr…

Truly horrifying footage. It took medical ten minutes to arrive while a CO stood and watched Nieves essentially bleed to death from a cut to his neck.

Absolutely unacceptable. The video is incredibly disturbing, but shines another light on how dysfunctional and dangerous New York’s jails and prisons are. Nieves should be alive today.

Below, our story on Rikers Island and Michael Nieves, a detainee who bled out for 10 mins as guards stood by. We spent 3 years filing FOIA requests and lawsuits to get these videos of conditions in the jail. w/ Jan Ransom Sarah Kerr Caroline Kim Michael LaForgia youtube.com/watch?v=kJvhdE…