News 12 is exposing explosive new allegations of abuse behind bars at prisons statewide – including Fishkill Correctional Facility, where several inmate deaths have resulted in lawsuits against the state.
Four whistleblowers are coming forward with similar allegations after the April 2022 death of Fishkill inmate Joseph Clarke.
One of them is former prison inmate Antoine Jackson, who served time at Fishkill and other state correctional facilities until 2011.
“I’ve watched guards kill inmates, stab them and throw them off top tiers,” said Jackson. “I was hurt and beat several times. They can hide anything. It’s very easy to doctor reports.”
Jackson reached out to News 12 after we first reported on Clarke – whose death is being investigated as a suicide, despite his mother’s claims that officers were trying to kill him.
So did Ingrid Zavata, from Newburgh, who says her boyfriend was beaten and had his hand broken by officers at Sing-Sing during one incident last October.
“They taunt him,” said Zavata. “He told me they said there’s no cameras back here so it’s our word against yours and who is going to believe a criminal.”
Debbie Camacho, from Slate Hill, has similar allegations and says her husband was allegedly assaulted and left unconscious in solitary confinement in April by corrections officers during intake at Dannamora.
“They escorted him somewhere where there’s no cameras and beat the living life out of my husband,” said Camacho.
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