Three Midstate Correction Officers Plead Guilty to Assaulting an Inmate

Three state prison workers have admitted to assaulting an inmate in April of 2023 at Mid-state Correctional Facility in Marcy. Correction officers Brandon Montanari, Rohail Khan and Michael Williams have all pleaded guilty to depriving an inmate of his rights under color of law. Spectrum News reported that the correction officers each face a maximum of 10 years behind bars when they are sentenced this summer. The facility has been scrutinized lately since a grand jury has indicted two state correction officers for second-degree murder and eight others for lesser charges in the death of Messiah Nantwi at the facility in March of this year. At the same facility in 2016, more than two dozen incarcerated individuals were beaten by several staff members and, in some cases, sexually assaulted. A judge in that case declared the state fully liable for those assaults this past December.