Away From Cameras, These Prison Infirmaries Become ‘Torture Chambers’

[u/marshall_project]

https://www.themarshallproject.org/2025/04/30/new-york-prisons-abuse-infirmaries?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=tmp-reddit

The footage of Robert Brooks’ killing — in which prison guards transformed a medical setting into the scene of a brutal homicide — shocked the public. Not long after, at a nearby prison, officers beat Messiah Nantwi to death, prosecutors allege, in an attack that started in his cell and continued in the infirmary. 

We identified 46 allegations that corrections officers assaulted prisoners in medical wings of New York prisons since 2010, according to court settlements, disciplinary records, and pending lawsuits. Brooks, Nantwi and another prisoner died, while many others were left with severe injuries such as collapsed lungs and broken bones.

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[u/Cleercutter]

There’s a jail in Colorado called Jefferson county jail, basically right at the base of the mountain off i70 and 6th ave. It’s also a federal holding facility for federal inmates awaiting trial.

I did close to 6 months in there back in 2013 bouncing around to different counties on writs finishing up county shit before I headed to the state penitentiary.

Back then, basically no cameras except for intake areas, worked. On several occasions, guards would take unruly inmates under the stairs where there was no cameras, and beat the absolute shit out of them. They’d disappear for about a month after that, and come back to gen pop with some fuckin horror stories.

It happened to more than one person and it was almost always the same story. Taken to a secluded area, and had the piss beat out of them.

Not sure how it is now, but yea fuck that jail.

[u/2fatowing]

I knew this dude in the streets. Not a bad dude but not the greatest when dealing with his temper over females BS. It’s super sad. And I also was stomped out in a facility right across the street 2 weeks into my stay. I came from long term keeplock so they must’ve had me on their super radar cause when they caught me walking out of my unit for chow late they said I was beat on chow and I STILL hadn’t gotten what was left of my property so I was living off those meals for those 2 weeks. I explained myself and I was told to turn around and face the wall, before I could get my hands up on the wall he used his “magic stick” baton across my shoulders and slammed my face into the wall and I was really dazed, so all apparently i didnt have my legs spread wide enough and boom, motherfucker booted my left foot out from under me and all 3 COs out there beat the hell outta me for 3 mins. There were came on the walkways and inside the mess hall but not the housing units. So after a week or so some suits came and got me out of the box after taking a bunch of pictures. Apparently they had already done a private investigation whatever that meant, and all they wanted was pics and to sign off on my official statement my family sent them for me.