They, Too, Died After Beatings by Guards. No One Raised an Alarm.

A screen grab from an officer’s hand-held camera recording shows officers at the Upstate Correctional Facility in Malone, N.Y., pushing Ladale Kennedy, an inmate, against a wall during a “cell extraction.” (Credit…NYS Department of Corrections and Community Supervision, NYT)

Two brutal killings, less than three months apart, in New York State’s prison system raised troubling questions: Had other inmates met similar fates?

When an inmate named Ladale Kennedy stopped breathing one night in a New York State prison cell, no one paid it much mind.

No one opened a broad inquiry into the death of Mr. Kennedy, the 1,055th to be recorded in the prison system since 2014.

The local medical examiner classified the incident, in July 2022, as something of an official mystery: cause and manner “undetermined.” …

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