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“HE DISMISSED IT NONCHALANTLY.” HE SAID, “THEY’RE TOO MANY CAMERAS INSIDE THE PRISONS FOR THAT TO HAPPEN.’’
Prisoners’ rights advocates warned New York’s embattled prison chief guards were regularly beating and abusing prisoners sadistically, and getting away with it, three-and-a-half months before guards tortured and killed Robert Brooks.
One even warned spiraling guard violence was a “ticking time-bomb.”
The chief, Commissioner Daniel J. Martuscello III, of the state Department of Corrections and Community Supervision, blew off the advocates’ concerns…