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Prison Violence
Scotia-Glenville, NY
News
Robert Brooks Death: Ex-Corrections Officer Gets 15 Years For Beating Of NY Inmate
A former New York state corrections officer was sentenced to 15 years in prison for his role in the brutal beating death of inmate Robert Brooks. Christopher Walrath, a former officer at Marcy Correctional Facility in Oneida County, learned his fate Monday, Aug. 4, after pleading guilty in May to first-degree manslaughter. Brooks, 43, had been transferred to Marcy on Dec. 9, 2024. He was attacked by a group of officers shortly after arriving, according to prosecutors. He died the next morning from what an autopsy later determined was homicide, caused by “compression of the neck and multiple…
Beekman-Poughquag, NY
News
Inmate Stabs Correction Officer With Homemade Ice Pick-Style Weapon At Green Haven Prison
A violent inmate attack at a Dutchess County correctional facility left one correction officer with stab wounds and another injured while attempting to avoid harm. The incident happened around 5:40 p.m. on Monday, July 21, when a 42-year-old inmate allegedly attempted to stab a female officer with a homemade icepick-style weapon inside a cell block at the Green Haven Correctional Facility in Beekman, the New York State Correctional Officers & Police Benevolent Association announced on Friday, Aug. 1. According to the union, the inmate became agitated and approached…
Jessup, MD
Police & Fire
Maryland Inmate Killed In Prison Cell During Bloody Altercation: State Police
A 42-year-old inmate was killed inside his Jessup prison cell during an altercation with another inmate, Maryland State Police announced. Brian Bell, an inmate at the Maryland Correctional Institution in Jessup, died at R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center on Saturday, July 26, Maryland State Police said. Police say Bell and another inmate were inside their cell when a corrections officer noticed blood on both of them around 6:15 p.m. on Friday. Both men were rushed to local hospitals. Bell was taken to Shock Trauma in Baltimore, where he later died, officials said. The other inmate, …
South Plainfield, NJ
Police & Fire
South Plainfield Prisoner Found Guilty Of Killing Inmate: Prosecutor
A 39-year-old prisoner at South Woods State Prison and former South Plainfield resident was convicted in a bench trial of killing a fellow inmate on Thursday, June 12, authorities said. On Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2019, investigators from the New Jersey Department of Corrections Special Investigations Division (NJDOC SID) responded to a homicide at South Woods State Prison, Cumberland County Prosecutor Jennifer Webb-McRae said. The victim, Kenyon Wade, was found unresponsive in his cell with severe head and neck trauma and was pronounced dead at the scene. An investigation determined Wade sustai…
Trenton, NJ
News
Trenton Inmate Guilty Of Killing Man Day Before His Release: Prosecutor
A 45-year-old Trenton inmate was convicted of first degree murder on Thursday, May 29, in the death of a fellow prisoner at Bayside State Prison in 2022, authorities said. On Monday, Nov. 21, 2022 Martin Sanchez was found unresponsive in his cell with severe injuries to his face at the prison in Leesburg, the Cumberland County Prosecutor's Office said. Sanchez was pronounced dead at the scene, with the cause of death determined to be blunt force head injuries and neck compression. authorities said. Bruce Duette was charged after his DNA was located on the inside of a sneaker, sock…
Fredericksburg, VA
Politics
MS-13 Gang Members Who ‘Never Should Have Been In US’ Attack VA Corrections Officers: DOC
MS-13 gang members from El Salvador who "never should have been in this country" seriously injured several corrections officers in Virginia, state officials said. Three corrections officers were stabbed and two others injured during a targeted attack by gang members at Wallens Ridge State Prison, authorities announced. Google Maps satellite view The ambush unfolded around 9:45 a.m. on Friday, May 2, when six inmates — including five confirmed MS-13 members from El Salvador and a sixth member of the Sureño 13 gang from the US — allegedly turned on officers in what the Virginia Department o…
Albany, NY
News
Prison Death: NY AG Recusing Herself From Investigation Into Alleged Beating Of Messiah Nantwi
New York Attorney General Letitia James has recused her office from investigating the alleged beating death of a 22-year-old inmate at the hands of state prison guards. James’ office filed a motion in Onondaga County Supreme Court requesting a special prosecutor in the death of Messiah Nantwi at Mid-State Correctional Facility in Marcy, her office announced Thursday, March 6. The court granted the motion, appointing Onondaga County DA William Fitzpatrick as special prosecutor. James cited “internal conflicts,” given that her office represents state employees, including corrections officers…
Albany, NY
News
Prison Killing: Guards Smashed Messiah Nantwi's Face, Made Cellmate Clean Up Blood, Report Says
Shocking new details paint a horrific scene in the alleged beating death of a 22-year-old man at the hands of New York State prison guards. Messiah Nantwi, 22, died at Mid-State Correctional Facility in Marcy on Saturday, March 1, a spokesperson for the Department of Corrections and Community Supervision (DOCCS) told Daily Voice. While an official cause of death had not been released as of Wednesday, March 5, an inmate at the facility told Albany station WRGB that Nantwi was severely beaten by CERT (Correctional Emergency Response Team). “There was a sergeant there who turned his back so t…
Albany, NY
News
Second Inmate Beaten To Death By Guards Near NY Prison Where Robert Brooks Died: Report
A second inmate has died near the same New York State prison where guards were captured on video fatally beating an inmate last year. Messiah Nantwi, 22, died at Mid-State Correctional Facility in Marcy on Saturday, March 1, a spokesperson for the Department of Corrections and Community Supervision (DOCCS) told Daily Voice. Additional details about his death were not released, but nine inmates at the facility told The New York Times that Nantwi was brutally beaten by corrections officers. Thomas Mailey, a prisons spokesman, declined to comment on the New York Times allegations in a st…
Suffield, CT
Police & Fire
'I Strangled Him': Suttfield Inmate Murdered Cellmate, Laid Body On Table, Police Said
Kyle McKinnon started his morning on Dec. 12, 2024, like hundreds of others at MacDougall-Walker Correctional Institution — with one major exception: He murdered his cellmate, police said. The 31-year-old New London man climbed down from his top bunk, used the restroom, and washed his hands, but a nagging fact in the back of his mind made him change up his routine. That's when he turned to his cellmate, Kenneth Montaner Buscampeil — a 26-year-old serving a fourth-degree sexual assault conviction — wrapped his hands around the man's throat and choked him to death, a state police inv…
Albany, NY
News
Officers Charged With Murder In Beating Death Of Robert Brooks At NY Prison
Six former corrections officers are facing murder and manslaughter charges in the fatal beating of inmate Robert Brooks at a New York prison. An indictment unsealed in Oneida County on Thursday, Feb. 20, charges the following ex-prison guards with second-degree murder in Brooks' death at the Marcy Correctional Facility in December 2024: Nicholas Anazalone Anthony Farina Mathew Galliher Christopher Walrath David Kingsley An unnamed sixth defendant All six defendants are also charged with first-degree manslaughter and gang assault, Albany NBC affiliate WNYT reports. Additionally,…
Camp Hill, PA
News
Accused Harrisburg Killer Stabs Sex Offender From Michigan To Death At SCI Camp Hill: PSP
An inmate accused in two Harrisburg homicides stabbed and killed a fellow prisoner at the State Correctional Institution (SCI) in Camp Hill, Pennsylvania State Police announced on Wednesday, Jan. 29. Hezekiah F. Campbell, 29, who is awaiting trial for two separate fatal shootings in Harrisburg, fatally stabbed fellow inmate Spencer Curtlin Kassel, 35, in the prison's recreation yard before being detained by correctional staff, according to authorities. Prison staff immediately provided life-saving measures until Lower Allen EMS arrived and continued advanced support. Kassel was pronounced d…
Drexel Hill-Upper Darby, PA
Police & Fire
Third Pennsylvania Prison Stabbing in 24 Hours
A 32-year-old man was stabbed multiple times in the head and face inside the Philadelphia Industrial Correctional Center (PICC) on Saturday, Nov. 30, 2024, at 6:00 p.m., according to Philadelphia police. The man was rushed to Jefferson Torresdale Hospital, where he is listed in stable condition. Police said no weapon was recovered, and the scene was not held, though an arrest has been made. This incident marks the third stabbing within Philadelphia’s prison system in just 24 hours. On Friday evening, two inmates, aged 30 and 31, were attacked at the Curran-Fromhold Correctional Facility …
Drexel Hill-Upper Darby, PA
Police & Fire
Double Stabbing Inside PA Prison Hospitalizes 2: Police
Two men were hospitalized after a double stabbing inside the Curran-Fromhold Correctional Facility (CFCF) in Northeast Philadelphia, police announced on Friday, Nov. 29. The incident was reported at 7:24 p.m., according to Philadelphia police. A 30-year-old man was stabbed three times in the back. He was transported by a prison bus to Jefferson Torresdale Hospital, where he was listed in stable condition, authorities said. A second victim, 31, suffered a stab wound to the head. Philadelphia Fire Department medics took him to the same hospital, where he was also reported in stable condi…
Millville, NJ
Police & Fire
Former Officer Who Didn't Stop Attacks On Bayside State Prison Inmates Sentenced, Feds Say
A former corrections officer in Leesburg will spend more than a year in prison after admitting to not stopping attacks against two inmates, authorities said. Joshua Hand, 35, of Millville, was sentenced on Tuesday, Nov. 5 to 20 months in prison, New Jersey's U.S. Attorney Philip Sellinger said in a news release. He was a corrections officer at Bayside State Prison. According to court documents and statements, Hand was in the officers' quarters in the kitchen area when the first victim entered the room in December 2019. "Shortly after the victim entered the officers’ qua…
Ossining, NY
News
Man Kills Fellow Inmate At Sing Sing In Ossining, Convicted Nearly 30 Years Later
Nearly 30 years after fatally stabbing a fellow inmate at a Northern Westchester prison because he wore a cross, a 54-year-old New York man learned he will spend decades in prison for the killing. Albany resident Allah-Son-Allah was sentenced to 20 years in state prison for his killing of 32-year-old Michael Jones on Christmas Eve 1995 while they were both incarcerated at Sing Sing Correctional Facility in Ossining, the Westchester County District Attorney's Office announced on Thursday, Oct. 10. According to the DA's Office, at around 8 p.m. on Dec. 24, 1995, Allah-Son-All…
Hagerstown, MD
News
Inmate Found Stabbed To Death In Maryland Prison; Suspect In Custody: State Police
An inmate housed at a Maryland prison was killed after being stabbed to death by another prisoner in his cell, state police say. Marvin Brown, 23, has been identified as the person found dead inside the Western Correctional Institution in Cumberland on Friday morning following an incident with another inmate, according to officials. At approximately 9:30 a.m. on Aug. 9, Maryland State Police troopers were called to the facility to investigate an inmate death, where they found Brown unresponsive with multiple puncture wounds. Another inmate - who has not been identified as charges are…
Monsey, NY
News
Hudson Valley Inmate Receives Increased Sentence For Attacking Jail Guards
A 35-year-old Hudson Valley inmate will serve an extra 14 years in state prison for attacking correction officers on at least four occasions, seriously injuring two. Rockland County resident, Darius Williams, age 35, of Spring Valley, was sentenced to two consecutive seven-year terms for the assaults, said Rockland County District Attorney Thomas E. Walsh. Williams was sentenced on Wednesday, March 13 to seven years in prison for slashing a man across the face with a box cutter in July 2022, after approaching a couple walking down a street and slashing the man across the face. He continued…
Poughkeepsie, NY
Police & Fire
Hudson Valley Prison On Lockdown After 24 Hours Of Violence
A Hudson Valley correctional facility is on lockdown following 24 hours of violence. The Dutchess County facility, Green Haven Correctional, located in Stormville, was placed on lockdown after the violent 24 hours on Wednesday, Oct.. 4, said Daniel Martuscello, Acting Commissioner of the State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision. Martuscello said the facility will be locked down and undergo a full facility search, going from cell to cell. While most of the violence has involved incarcerated against incarcerated, staff members have also been assaulted; including a corr…
Bel Air, MD
News
'Just Plain Evil:' Jealous Inmate Sentenced For Viciously Beating CO With Phone In Maryland
An inmate who threw everything but the kitchen sink at a corrections officer in a jealous rage-fueled fury will spend the rest of his days in the Big House. Matthew Dwight Tingler, 39, of Joppa, was sentenced to life in prison after pleading guilty to one count of attempted first-degree murder for attacking Cpl. Michael Vesek in the Harford County Detention Center on Nov. 20, 2022, the state’s attorney’s office announced. The vicious assault happened when Vesek, a Correctional Deputy at the detention center for more than two decades, was supervising Tingler during a phone call at the facili…
Newark, NJ
Police & Fire
Murderer Used Microwave, Mop Bucket To Beat Inmate In NJ Jail: Prosecutors
A man already imprisoned for murder was sentenced to an additional 20 years for a brutal beating of an inmate in the Essex County Jail, prosecutors announced on Tuesday, Sept. 12. In Sept. 2019, Darryl Watson and six inmates beat Jayshawn Boyd, a 22-year-old Newark resident with a microwave, water cooler, and an industrial mop bucket, leaving him with permanent brain damage, Acting Essex County Prosecutor Theodore N. Stephens, II said. Watson was convicted of attempted murder in the first degree, aggravated assault in the second degree and possession of a microwave for an unlawful purp…
Egg Harbor Township, NJ
Police & Fire
Atlantic County Inmate Beat Another Inmate Dead: Prosecutor
An inmate from Burlington County is charged with beating another inmate to death at the Atlantic County Justice Facility, authorities said. Aahznier Hayes, 22, of Westhampton, was charged with first-degree murder for the beating death of Kenneth Raymond, 52, of Ventnor, according to the Atlantic County Prosecutor's Office. On Wednesday, Aug. 30, at 12:09 a.m., the Atlantic County Prosecutor’s Office’s Major Crimes Unit responded to the Atlantic County Justice Facility in Mays Landing for a report of an inmate that was beaten to death by another inmate. The investi…
Glen Burnie, MD
Police & Fire
Murder
: Maryland Prisoner Charged With Stabbing Cellmate Dead
A 26-year-old prisoner has been charged in the May 2023 death of his cellmate at the Jessup Correctional Institute, authorities said. Daniel Myers is facing one count of first-degree murder and related offenses in the May 27 incident that left 27-year-old Nicholas Joseph Delfosse dead, Maryland State Police said. Delfosse had been serving time for burlgary. Myers is believed to have stabbed Delfosse in their cell, authorities said. Delfosse was found in the cell in the maximum-security prison with multiple injuries shortly before 4:30 p.m. on May 27. An autopsy by the Office of the Ch…
Edison, NJ
Police & Fire
NJ Correctional Officer Indicted In Beating Of Resident Who Died
A correctional police officer at New Jersey’s maximum-security facility for sex offenders was indicted for his role in the beating of a resident who died days later of a stroke. Giuseppe "Joey: Mandara, 54, of Brick Township “abandoned his equipment, including keys and radio, and thereafter used excessive or unlawful force” on Darrell Smith at the Adult Diagnostic and Treatment Center in Middlesex County, the indictment says. A grand jury in Trenton returned the indictment charging Mandara with misconduct last week, according to a statement issued by state Attorney General Matthew J. Platki…
Vineland, NJ
News
NJ Inmate Beaten Dead 'Always Took Care Of His Family,' Relative Says
Relatives of Martin Sanchez, a 41-year-old inmate and Newark native who was beaten to death in a New Jersey State Prison, called him a family man. The Cumberland County Prosecutor’s Office Major Crimes Unit and the New Jersey Department of Corrections are investigating the recent homicide that occurred at Bayside State Prison in Leesburg. “He always took care of his family and defended them in any way," said a relative of Sanchez's. At 7:11 p.m. on Nov. 21, authorities were notified that Sanchez was unresponsive and injured in his cell appearing to be suffering from blunt force trauma, a…
Alexandria, VA
Police & Fire
Inmate Serving Life Sentence For VA Murder Charged For Assaulting Prison Officer: DA
A corrections officer is in a coma after an inmate, who was serving a sentence for a 2001 Virginia murder, assaulted him, officials said. Roy Booth was charged for hitting Officer Matthew Tidman multiple times with a metal pole, while they were both inside a Massachusetts prison, according to the Middlesex County District Attorney's office. When he carried out the attack, Booth was serving a life sentence for the murder of Melissa Tanner, back in 2001, in Portsmouth, according to his case records. He was transferred to a prison in Massachusetts back in March 2021, the District At…
Cambridge, MA
News
Inmate Charged With Brutal Attack On Massachusetts Corrections Officer: DA
The inmate who brutally attacked a Massachusetts corrections officer at a Shirley prison last month has been officially charged, the Middlesex County District Attorney's office reports. Roy Booth was charged in connection with attacking Officer Matthew Tidman in MCI-Shirley's gym on the afternoon of Wednesday, Aug. 31. Tidman is now in a coma where he remains in critical condition, a GoFundMe organized on his behalf says. "Matt is someone who is the first to lend a helping hand no matter the situation and now is our time to do the same for him and his family," the campa…
Egg Harbor Township, NJ
News
Inmate In Coma After Being Brutally Stomped By Another In Atlantic County
A 42-year-old inmate at the Atlantic County Justice Facility remains in a coma after he was brutally stomped by a 26-year-old inmate last week, according to authorities and various news reports. Shakur L. Aabid has been charged with attempted murder in the Sept. 13 incident that landed Hassan Robinson in the hospital fighting for his life, according to the Atlantic County Prosecutor's Office and Robinson's family. Surveillance footage shows Robinson walking up to a cell door to get in line with other inmates for a meal, when Aabid stands up from nearby to strike him when he's not …
Cambridge, MA
News
Massachusetts Corrections Officer Fighting For Life After Brutal Prison Attack
A Massachusetts corrections officer is fighting for his life after he was brutally attacked by an inmate while on duty, sources tell Daily Voice. Officer Matthew Tidman, age 36, was attacked by an inmate with a metal object in the gymnasium at MCI-Shirley in Shirley on the afternoon of Wednesday, Aug. 31. Tidman is now in a coma where he remains in critical condition, a GoFundMe organized on his behalf says. "Matt is someone who is the first to lend a helping hand no matter the situation and now is our time to do the same for him and his family," the campaign reads. The GoFundMe is lookin…
Manassas, VA
Police & Fire
Prince William Inmate Attacked Guard With Homemade Shiv: Police
A 44-year-old inmate who'd been arrested for allegedly stabbing a woman reportedly tried to continue that trend when he attacked a guard at a Prince William jail with a shiv, authorities said. Salomon Alberto Nazar of Manassas is an inmate at the Prince William-Manassas Regional Adult Detention Center at 9320 Lee Avenue in Manassas. Investigators said that Nazar approached a guard with a hand-made object that was sharpened into a knife and tried to stab the officer multiple times, Prince William police said. They struggled for control over the weapon before the officer wren…
Beekman-Poughquag, NY
Police & Fire
One Killed, Another Injured After Fight Breaks Out At Correctional Facility In Hudson Valley
One person was killed and another injured after a fight broke out at a correctional facility in the Hudson Valley. The incident between incarcerated individuals in Dutchess County happened on Tuesday, June 28 at the Green Haven Facility in Stormville, New York State Police said. The identity of the person killed is being withheld pending family notifications. This investigation remains ongoing and new information will be released as it becomes available, state police said. This is a developing story. Check back to Daily Voice for updates.
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