NEW: My Dad was the fourth resident of his nursing home (@HudsonPointe_HC) to get #coronavirus. No one told me about the first and a NY State Dept of Health policy did not require notification. That policy changed on April 4, five days before my dad died.

RT @Jan_Ransom: New🚨: Rikers Island guards stood by as Michael Nieves bled out onto the floor after cutting his throat with a razor. Their….

RT @SalazarSenate: Absolutely unacceptable. The video is incredibly disturbing, but shines another light on how dysfunctional and dangerous….

RT @ReuvenBlau: Truly horrifying footage. It took medical ten minutes to arrive while a CO stood and watched Nieves essentially bleed to de….

New🚨: Rikers Island guards stood by as Michael Nieves bled out onto the floor after cutting his throat with a razor. Their inaction, a medical examiner said, contributed to his death. We obtained video of what went wrong, making it public for the 1st time

We obtained video of what happened that day. Made public here for the first time, the video offers a window into a jail system in the grips of crisis.

NEW🚨: Michael Nieves was 1 of 19 Rikers Island detainees who died in 2022, with most of the deaths deemed preventable by oversight officials.

RT @errollouis: “By the time of his August 2021 resignation, Cuomo had cut about 770 beds in OMH psych centers statewide, a 19% reduction,….

2 Guards Charged With Murder in Beating Death of Prisoner in New York.

The Onondaga District Attorney in a news release said a “noteworthy development” in the investigation into the death of Messiah Nantwi will be announced in court tomorrow. Last month @nytimes broke news that Messiah died following a brutal beating by prison guards.

RT @Jan_Ransom: NEWS: 11 prison staff have been placed on administrative leave following the death Messiah Nantwi, 22. 9 inmates said h….

NYC’s government has been rocked by corruption scandals at a pace not seen in nearly a century. Yet over the past few years, NY leaders have presided over a gradual weakening of the city’s No. 1 corruption-fighting agency, the Department of Investigation:

RT @bern_hogan: Not a word about:. 1. sexual harassment allegations. 2. nearly $30M & counting of taxpayer money spent to defend Cuomo & ai….

BIG NEWS: The New York Attorney General's Office said in a request for recusal “that as many as NINE corrections officers caused the death of Messiah Nantwi or committed acts that contributed thereto, and thereby committed a crime.”.

RT @Jan_Ransom: BREAKING🚨: For the second time in three months, the office of New York’s attorney general, Letitia James, said it was recus….

Nine prisoners interviewed by The New York Times on Sunday, seven of whom agreed to have their names used, said the inmate, Messiah Nantwi, 22, had been brutally beaten by corrections officers:.

BREAKING🚨: For the second time in three months, the office of New York’s attorney general, Letitia James, said it was recusing itself from investigating the death of a prisoner whom other inmates said was brutally beaten by guards:.

RT @Jan_Ransom: NEWS🚨: @GovKathyHochul said on Tuesday that 15 corrections department employees had been put on leave in connection with th….

To be clear: It is unusual for prisoners to speak out so forcefully about allegations of brutality behind bars. Many fear retaliation by guards. They are doing so at great risk.

The announcement comes days after nine prisoners interviewed by @nytimes said Mr. Nantwi died on Saturday after he was beaten by prison guards at Mid-State Correctional Facility in Marcy, N.Y., near Utica:.

NEWS🚨: @GovKathyHochul said on Tuesday that 15 corrections department employees had been put on leave in connection with the death of Messiah Nantwi, a 22-year-old inmate in a medium-security prison in central New York. (story w/ @liamstack).