Syracuse, N.Y. — The chair of the state Senate committee that oversees New York State’s sprawling prison system has called for the closure of the Utica-area facility where guards brutally assaulted an ...

As the pastor of Hope Chapel AME Zion Church, the oldest African American church in the Mohawk Valley, founded by slaves and the children of slaves, I am deeply pained ...

Family demands answers after Five Points inmate dies, alleges years of abuse and ignored pleas for protection Romulus ...

State Sen. Julia Salazar is urging the closure of Marcy Correctional Facility following the brutal assault and subsequent ...

One thing that should be crystal clear now about the state of the corrections system in New York state after the death of inmate Robert Brooks is this: An entire ...

The body camera footage of the beating of Robert Brooks offered an unflinching window into the brutality at Marcy ...

The family of Robert Brooks, the Greece inmate who corrections officers beat, says they plan to file a civil lawsuit over his death.

The Human Alternative to Longterm Incarceration Act which strictly limits the use of solitary confinement as a punishment or deterrent in prisons, has led to a sharp increase in violence among inmates ...

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Multiple state and federal agencies are investigating the beating death of Robert Brooks, with 13 corrections officers and a nurse under scrutiny.Criminal defe ...

Officials are investigating the death of Robert Brooks, an inmate who died after he was pummeled by corrections officers in ...

MARCY, N.Y. – New details have emerged about the injuries that led to the death of Robert Brooks, the Greece man beaten by ...