NEW: Prison guard sentenced to 25 years in prison for beating an inmate to death in New York.
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) May 29, 2026
Former Mid-State Correctional Facility guard Jonah Levi was one of the guards who beat inmate Messiah Nantwi to death.
Nantwi was hit 69 times with batons, feet, and fists. Levi was… pic.twitter.com/77YOrfmvYz
NEW: Prison guard sentenced to 25 years in prison for beating an inmate to death in New York.
Former Mid-State Correctional Facility guard Jonah Levi was one of the guards who beat inmate Messiah Nantwi to death.
Nantwi was hit 69 times with batons, feet, and fists. Levi was accused of stomping on the 22-year-old’s head, who later died at the hospital.
“I think the real you was shown to me in the body-worn camera,” Judge Michael Nolan said during sentencing.
“You were fist-bumping other officers, laughing and joking while Mr. Nantwi lay on the floor, dying in the infirmary because of the things you and those other officers did.”
All the other guards pleaded guilty in plea deals.
Levi was hit with the maximum sentence of 25 years in state prison with five years of post-release supervision.
He will be 65 years old when he is released from prison
NEW: Prison guard sentenced to 25 years in prison for beating an inmate to death in New York.
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) May 29, 2026
Former Mid-State Correctional Facility guard Jonah Levi was one of the guards who beat inmate Messiah Nantwi to death.
Nantwi was hit 69 times with batons, feet, and fists. Levi was… pic.twitter.com/77YOrfmvYz
NEW: Prison guard sentenced to 25 years in prison for beating an inmate to death in New York.
Former Mid-State Correctional Facility guard Jonah Levi was one of the guards who beat inmate Messiah Nantwi to death.
Nantwi was hit 69 times with batons, feet, and fists. Levi was accused of stomping on the 22-year-old’s head, who later died at the hospital.
“I think the real you was shown to me in the body-worn camera,” Judge Michael Nolan said during sentencing.
“You were fist-bumping other officers, laughing and joking while Mr. Nantwi lay on the floor, dying in the infirmary because of the things you and those other officers did.”
All the other guards pleaded guilty in plea deals.
Levi was hit with the maximum sentence of 25 years in state prison with five years of post-release supervision.
He will be 65 years old when he is released from prison
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