SCRANTON, Pa. —The vicious beating of a Pennsylvania inmate awaiting sentencing on a child pornography charge has raised troubling questions about prison justice inside a Scranton lockup.
Nicholas Pinto kept a diary in which he claimed to have endured months of physical, sexual, and mental abuse at Lackawanna County Prison. He says guards roughed him up and a fellow inmate repeatedly raped him.
Pinto feared for his life, yet the officials responsible for his safety appear to have ignored his pleas for help. What came next was perhaps inevitable.
