“There needs to be an immediate review of all the use-of-force incidents that have taken place since his death … and discipline needs to follow appropriately from there.”
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An investigation by Prisoners’ Legal Services of Massachusetts reveals what it calls a repeated pattern of excessive and prohibited force at South Bay House of Correction, months after an inmate died following an altercation with corrections officers at the facility.
The findings come after the death of Shacoby Kenny, 32, was ruled a homicide in July. Kenny died at a hospital Dec. 8, 2025, one day after the confrontation inside South Bay. The state medical examiner determined he died from a condition in which his brain did not receive enough blood and oxygen…