http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/22/nyregion/new-york-officers-downstate-correctional-facility-inmate-beating.html 2016-09-21 15:24:57 3 New York Corrections Officers Charged in ’13 Beating of Inmate The officers, from a Fishkill prison, were arrested by federal agents Wednesday in connection with the beating of Kevin Moore, who sustained numerous broken bones and had his dreadlocks ripped out. === Three New York State corrections officers were arrested by agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation on Wednesday morning on conspiracy and fraud charges in connection with the beating of an inmate who sustained numerous broken bones and a collapsed lung, and had his dreadlocks ripped out. The inmate, Kevin Moore, was left lying in a pool of blood, and the officers refused to get him medical care, according to the indictment, which was unsealed by the United States attorney’s office for the Southern District of New York on Wednesday morning. One of the officers, George Santiago, later took Mr. Moore’s dreadlocks as a “trophy,” bragging that he was going to use them as decoration for his motorcycle, the indictment said. The beating occurred on Nov. 12, 2013, at Downstate Correctional Facility in Fishkill, N.Y. Afterward, according to the indictment, the officers tried to cover up what they did. They hit one of the officers involved with a baton and wrote an official report claiming that Mr. Moore attacked them. Mr. Moore was eventually hospitalized for 17 days. Mr. Santiago, along with another officer, Carson Morris, and a sergeant, Kathy Scott, were charged with conspiracy to deprive civil rights, deprivation of rights under color of law, conspiracy to falsify records, and falsifying records, according to the indictment. They will be arraigned on Wednesday afternoon in White Plains, N.Y. The arrests come at a time when the state prison system has been under intense scrutiny from prosecutors and the media. Last year, just two miles from Downstate, an inmate at Fishkill Correctional Facility named Samuel Harrell died after an encounter with a group of as many as 20 officers, known by inmates at that prison as the Beat Up Squad. The episode, The United State attorney’s office for the Western District opened an investigation last year into the beating of an inmate at Attica Correctional Facility by three corrections officers who pleaded guilty to a criminal misdemeanor charge and resigned their jobs. The Downstate case was initially investigated by the Corrections Department’s internal affairs unit, which the Cuomo administration has remade in the last few years, hiring more than two dozen investigators, several of them from federal law enforcement agencies. Traditionally the internal affairs division was run by corrections officers who were often reluctant to take action against their fellow officers. Under the reorganization, the top administrators are former prosecutors. The unit’s current caseload of suspected wrongdoing by officers numbers over 1,000 cases, but any substantial changes in the way the department does business are unlikely without the cooperation of the powerful corrections officers union. Asked by The Times this year whether brutality by officers was a problem, Michael Powers, the union president, replied, “What are you talking about?”