Joshua Bartlett

Joshua Bartlett is a former prison guard who recently pleaded guilty to hindering prosecution and falsifying records related to the beating death of inmate Messiah Nantwi at the Mid-State Correctional Facility in New York. His guilty plea marks him as the first guard to accept responsibility in a case that has seen multiple correction officers indicted for their roles in the incident, which involved severe abuse of an inmate and subsequent cover-up efforts.