MARCY, N.Y. — All 15 former prison guards who pleaded guilty or were found guilty in the beating death of Messiah Nantwi, an inmate at Mid-State Correctional Facility in Marcy, have now been sentenced.
Former guard Thomas Eck was sentenced on Tuesday to one year in Oneida County Jail, after he pleaded guilty to offering a false instrument for filing. Investigators say he omitted certain details from a required post-beating report to protect other officers involved.
The beating deaths of Nantwi and Greece native Robert Brooks, just months apart at two different prisons in Marcy, have sparked calls for more accountability for prison staff. That includes state lawmakers passing a jail and prison oversight bill that Brooks’ family advocated for.
Sentencings in Nantwi’s death
Nantwi died in March of 2025 after being beaten by corrections officers part of an emergency response team. Two former prison guards are serving prison time for first-degree manslaughter in Nantwi’s death. One was found guilty and was sentenced to 25 years in prison, and the other pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 11 years. The rest of the defendants received a combination of prison terms, jail sentences, and plea agreements in the beating or in what investigators called a cover-up.
Sentencings in Brooks’s death
Body-worn camera footage shows guards hitting Brooks multiple times on a medical exam table, just hours before he died, in December of 2024. After Brooks’ death, 10 total former guards were indicted. In a trial, one former prison guard was found guilty of murder, and two were acquitted of murder charges in his death. David Kingsley was sentenced to the maximum of 25 years to life in prison.
Five others pleaded guilty to manslaughter. For the remaining two, one pleaded guilty to tampering with physical evidence and the other pleaded guilty to reckless endangerment. William Fitzpatrick, the special prosecutor in both cases, says that the advocacy continues even though the prosecution has ended.
“I would suggest that a legacy for Mr. Brooks and Mr. Nantwi would be the passage of the duty to intervene act, making it a felony to not intervene while one of your fellow officers is beating an inmate very seriously, or even to the point of death,” he said. “They had a right to come out better people and alive. That’s not too much to ask for.”
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