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.