Third Death in Four Weeks Rocks Bedford Hills Women’s Prison
Rebecca McCray / New York Focus — This week’s death, which incarcerated people and advocates described as a suicide, comes at a time of turmoil in the facility...
New York’s Prison Officials Don’t Want Incarcerated People to Read This Story
Rebecca McCray / Hell Gate — On Monday morning, state correction officers trickled back to work following a three-week-long wildcat strike that affected nearly all of the state’s 42 prisons and caused disruptions in meals, medication distribution, education and rec programming, and effectively confined incarcerated people to their cells for nearly 24 hours a day in some facilities. Over the course of the strike, seven incarcerated people died, including 22-year-old Messiah Nantwi of the Bronx, who was reportedly beaten to death by correction officers who have since been placed on leave...
Incarcerated NYers on the Prison Guard Wildcat Strike: ‘They Want to Go Back to the Good Old Days of Just Beating and Killing Guys’
Rebecca McCray / Hell Gate — "It happened because correction officers have been held accountable for their actions, and they feel threatened because they can be prosecuted for killing an incarcerated individual." ...