All three men were killed in altercations with other prisoners, according to New York State Police. Additional charges against the three individuals are currently pending.
The first incident was discovered Monday, April 6, around 4:30 p.m. inside the Upstate Correctional Facility in Malone, according to police. Michael Campbell, 51, was discovered dead under a sheet, according to authorities.
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Police discovered that Campbell’s cellmate, Andrew Hernandez, strangled him to death with a shoelace. According to internet records, Hernandez, 42, was in the 24th year of a second-degree murder sentence, while Campbell had been incarcerated since 2015 for burglary and grand larceny.
The following day at Riverview Correctional Facility, convicts Lawrence Brown, 34, and Ollie Jackson, 29, got into a fight that culminated with Brown punching Jackson in the face, according to state police. Jackson fell and hit his head on an unknown object.
He was moved to SUNY Upstate Medical Center for a brain bleed and placed on a ventilator but died from his injuries on Friday, April 10, according to investigators.
Brown had only been incarcerated since September 2025 and was serving a maximum three-year sentence for drug possession, according to state records. Jackson was serving the fifth year of a five-year sentence for drug possession, with a release date set for February 1, 2027.
On Friday, state officers arrived at Gouverneur Correctional Facility and discovered Shaun Bennett, 45, comatose and unable to move in his cell, according to authorities.
His cellmate, 32-year-old Savon O’Neal, punched Bennett with a closed fist during the altercation, causing a head injury that resulted in Bennett’s death, according to state police. O’Neal was also treated for non-life-threatening injuries.
Bennett began serving an 8- to 10-year drug and weapons possession term in July 2025, while O’Neal was incarcerated for weapons possession and scheduled to be released on June 14, 2027, according to state records.
