Robert Ricks calls the body camera footage showing the beating of his son Robert Brooks at Marcy Correctional Facility in ...
The governor has ordered all state employees involved in the beating — two nurses and 16 corrections officers — to be fired.
The son of Robert Brooks, an inmate who died after a prolonged beating by New York prison guards, has filed a federal lawsuit ...
Calls for justice echoed through the State Capitol as protesters, advocates, and lawmakers gathered to demand prison reform ...
Brooks did not find safety at Marcy. Multiple corrections officers violently beat him on Dec. 9 in the prison’s infirmary, repeatedly punching and kicking him in the groin, abdomen, face and back. He ...
A rally advocating for prison safety is set for Monday, following the death of Robert Brooks, an inmate at Marcy Correctional ...
The angry demand for immediate prison reform returned loudly to the corridors of the state Capitol on Monday. It comes in the ...
Trucks rotate in and out of the Seneca Meadows landfill in Seneca Falls, N.Y., Monday, January 27, 2025. (N. Scott Trimble | ...
"People who are incarcerated are human beings. They have rights. They shouldn’t have to live in fear that something like this ...
Several protesters were arrested Wednesday evening after they stormed into a Brooklyn subway station, jumping the turnstiles in fury over the killing of ...
Brooks was in his seventh year of a 12-year sentence for stabbing his longtime girlfriend in 2016. He died on Dec. 10, 2024, ...
The family of Robert Brooks, who was beaten to death last month at an upstate New York prison, filed a federal civil rights lawsuit Wednesday against the 17 officers under investigation in the case.