Messiah Nantwi was killed March 1 at Mid-State prison, becoming the second inmate to be fatally beaten in a NY prison in ...

Several law enforcement agencies responded to Trousdale Turner Correctional Facility overnight after prison guards were taken ...

A new federal civil rights lawsuit was filed against the prison guards accused of brutally beating and killing 22-year-old ...

including members of a Correctional Emergency Response Team. Advertisement Article continues below this ad The Times Union reported on March 5 that an ongoing homicide investigation has been ...

The indictments read in part: “...Having no clear understanding of why Corrections Emergency Response Team was necessary, defendants entered Messiah Nantwi's room... during the subsequent ...

The fatal beating of an incarcerated man at an upstate prison is drawing renewed attention to Corrections Emergency Response Team (CERT) units, whose members across the correctional system have ...

“In response, the Albany Correctional Emergency Response Team, along with the Riverview CERT Team …. have intervened to restore order and ensure the safety of all individuals inside,” the ...

Shortly past noon on Wednesday, Correctional Emergency Response Teams (CERT) — made up of officers from several other prisons across the state — arrived, with some of them double-timing toward ...

resulting in a response from the Mid-State Corrections Emergency Response Team. Nantwi was requested by a member of the National Guard to return to his room, but he refused, prompting the call.