PLS investigation documents chokeholds, handcuffs used as weapons, and broken bones, and finds officers involved in Shacoby Kenny’s death continued working around incarcerated people BOSTON — September 3, 2026 — Prisoners’ Legal Services of Massachusetts (PLS)...

This week, the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner ruled that the death of Shacoby Kenny was a homicide, concluding that he suffered cardiac arrest and catastrophic brain injury during a physical restraint by correction...

“Death Under Watch” is an ongoing series by MassLive and The Republican investigating deaths in Massachusetts prisons and jails. Access the article here. Before he died, Shacoby Kenny was surrounded by a group of officers at...