NY lawmakers must address the real prison crisis: rampant brutality
Victor Pate / Syracuse.come — Correction officers brutally beat Robert Brooks to death on video camera. Less than three months later, officers beat 22-year-old Messiah Nantwi to death. This nonchalant brutality takes place daily in prisons across the state. For decades, officers have beaten and killed people, especially Black people, in New York’s prisons — including Leonard Strickland, Samuel Harrell, Karl Taylor, Terry Cooper, John McMillon and countless others — and yet the racist system of brutality continues unabated...
