Michael Winerip and Michael Schwirtz in The New York Times report on a homicide by prison guards of inmate Samuel Harrell at April 21 at the Fishkill Correctional Facility. "As many as 20 officers — including members of a group known around the prison as the Beat Up Squad — repeatedly kicked and punched Mr. Harrell, who is black, with some of them shouting racial slurs, according to more than a dozen inmate witnesses," Winerip and Schwitz reported. Corrections officers called an ambulance, but told the ambulance crew that Harrell most likely had an overdose of K2, a synthetic marijuana, not that he was involved in a physical confrontation. An autopsy report from the Orange County medical examiner said Harrell had cuts and bruises to the head and extremities, but no marijuana of any type was found in his system, only an antidepressant and tobacco. The medical examiner ruled the death a homicide. Read the full story in The New York Times.