One of the former Marcy Correctional Facility officers who pled guilty in the beating death of Robert Brooks attempted to set aside his plea on Wednesday. First ...
A jury convicted a former New York correctional officer of murder in the fatal beating of an inmate late last year while acquitting two other former guards in the killing, which ...
One more corrections officer has to go to court in the Robert Brooks case, and it may not be over for the two defendants who ...
On March 1, another inmate, Messiah Nantwi, of Harlem, was beaten to death by guards at Mid-State, a short distance from Marcy. Ten officers were charged in the beating and subsequent cover-up, which ...
Closing statements have been given in the Robert Brooks case and the jury has gone to deliberate the fate of three corrections officers charged.
ALBANY, N.Y. (NEWS10) — On Monday, the verdict came down finding one correction officer guilty of killing Robert Brooks, a man who was incarcerated at Marcy Correctional. Two others were acquitted in ...
A jury convicted one former New York State corrections officer of murder in the 2024 beating death of inmate Robert Brooks, while acquitting two others of all charges. The verdict was delivered Monday ...
Brooks’ father, Robert Ricks, spoke out after the verdict, saying he thinks the judge got it wrong in letting two of the officers off “scott free.” The split verdict in the murder case of Robert ...
ALBANY, N.Y. — Advocates for prison reform were in Albany on Tuesday, calling on Governor Kathy Hochul to sign the Omnibus Prison Reform Act into law. The bill would require correctional facilities to ...
A Muslim chaplain employed by the state prisons system fatally shot himself early Friday in the same facility where inmate Robert Brooks was beaten to death by correction officers in ...