A MAN WAS BRUTALLY ALLOWED TO SUFFOCATE TO DEATH IN A NEW YORK PRISON CELL as nurses WATCHED AND CALLED HIM “NASTY” before WALKING AWAY. This is not an isolated tragedy, but a HORRIFYING PATTERN of state-sanctioned murder by medical neglect, a shocking new investigation reveals. Inmates are being LEFT TO DIE from treatable infections, asthma attacks, and obstructed bowels while prison staff LAUGH AND TAUNT them in their final moments.
Jason “Poppy” Phillips gasped his last breath on a cold concrete floor at Greene Correctional Facility, BEGGING for help as his airway swelled shut from a simple infection with a 99% survival rate. His desperate wife and a nurse cousin called the prison REPEATEDLY, only to be MET WITH SILENCE. When nurses finally appeared, they spent a MERE FOUR SECONDS shining a light through his door before cruelly dismissing him. “A simple ‘no’ would have been sufficient,” Nurse Megan Holbrook sneered, adding, “He’s nasty. Have a good night.”
For SIX AGONIZING HOURS, Phillips and his cellmate screamed for help over 40 times as officers ignored policy and a guard coldly stated, “One inmate, it actually looks like he’s going to die.” Even when Phillips lay motionless, nurses insisted he was “fine” and “on the ground for bed.” Sergeant Michael Sarrubbo taunted the housing unit, calling the desperate men “FUCKING PUSSIES” before leaving Phillips to die. This is the UNVARNISHED REALITY of a prison system that VIEWS HUMAN LIFE AS DISPOSABLE.
The Marshall Project has uncovered that MORE THAN 30 PEOPLE have died of preventable causes in New York prisons in the last decade. They choke, they convulse, they drown in their own fluids—all within earshot of nurses who are ASLEEP ON THE JOB or too CYNICAL TO CARE. The state’s own oversight commission HIDES THE TRUTH behind heavy black redactions, protecting murderous staff while families are kept in the dark. This is a DELIBERATE SYSTEM OF DEATH where accountability is a joke and cruelty is standard operating procedure.
If you think this couldn’t happen here, YOU ARE WRONG. This is what happens when a society decides that prisoners forfeit their humanity. The next time you hear a siren, ask yourself: who are we allowing to die behind the wall today?
Edited for Kayitsi.com
Author: Kayitsi.com
