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 statement to Daily Voice, but confirmed that 11 prison employees involved in the incident were placed on administrative leave pending the results of an investigation…