Dwight York petitions for release due to health issues

  • Dwight York
    Dwight York
  • One of two large pyramids that were on the Putnam County property owned by Dwight York and his Nuwaubian Nation of Moors. CONTRIBUTED
    One of two large pyramids that were on the Putnam County property owned by Dwight York and his Nuwaubian Nation of Moors. CONTRIBUTED

    Dwight Malachi York, who has been incarcerated in a maximum-security federal prison in Colorado for 22 years, has filed a petition for compassionate humanitarian release.

    York is best known as the self-proclaimed founder of the Nuwaubian Nation, which occupied 476 acres along Shady Dale Road in Putnam County. On 22 acres of that land, he built an Egyptian-themed compound known as Tama-Re, where rou…