Jan Ransom
Metro Investigative Reporter at The New York Times
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3 weeks ago |
nytimes.com | Hurubie Meko |Jan Ransom
In the first three months of the year, five people have died at the Rikers Island jail complex in New York or shortly after being released from city custody, equaling the number of detainees who died in all of 2024. The fifth death, on Monday night, comes as Mayor Eric Adams's administration is fighting to keep control of the troubled complex and other city lockups that have been plagued by violence and deaths in custody.
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1 month ago |
flipboard.com | Jan Ransom
Chilling Note Found On Dismembered Teens Who Went MissingA chilling message scrawled on the body of a crime boss, whom someone shot dead, might connect his murder to the savage killing of nine Mexican teens …
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1 month ago |
nytimes.com | Jan Ransom
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. As occurred in the case of the earlier death, a special prosecutor will take over the inquiry into the death of Messiah Nantwi, 22, who died last week after being held at Mid-State Correctional Facility in central New York, Ms. James's office said in a statement on Thursday.
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1 month ago |
nytimes.com | Liam Stack |Jan Ransom
Gov. Kathy Hochul 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. Ms. Hochul said that while the matter was under investigation, "early reports point to extremely disturbing conduct leading to Mr. Nantwi's death."His death followed the December killing of Robert Brooks, 43, at Marcy Correctional Facility, across the street from Mid-State.
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1 month ago |
nytimes.com | Jan Ransom
At Adirondack Correctional Facility near the Canadian border, the job of delivering meals to hungry inmates fell suddenly to the prison's superintendent and its teachers and counselors. At Auburn Correctional Facility in central New York, two ailing men died after not receiving medical care quickly enough.
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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.” https://t.co/cqE9YNkX3J