UTICA, N.Y.—Ten New York prison guards were charged Wednesday in connection with the fatal beating of a 22-year-old inmate last month—including two charged with murder. It’s the second time a group of correctional officers in the state was indicted for a death behind bars this year.
Messiah Nantwi, a prisoner at the Mid-State Correctional Facility, died March 1 from injuries he sustained in a series of beatings by guards that began in his room and continued even when he was lying handcuffed on the floor of the infirmary, the indictment says.
