Lawmakers intend to pursue new legislation next year targeted at New York’s prisons and the people who live and work within ...

A former New York prison guard was sentenced to 25 years to life in prison for the beating death of inmate Robert Brooks.

Robert Brooks was beaten to death by correctional officers in a New York prison, highlighting the need for structural change ...

Video footage of the inmate in handcuffs being punched and stomped by guards triggered widespread shock and calls for reform ...

A former Marcy correctional officer was sentenced to 25 years to life for the murder and manslaughter of Greece native and ...

A sweeping prison reform bill aimed at improving safety, accountability, and transparency in New York’s correctional ...

This story originally appeared in New York Focus, a nonprofit news publication investigating power in New York. Sign up for their newsletter here. It’s been 54 years since the infamous Attica prison ...

NEW YORK, Oct 21 (Reuters) - 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, ...

A former New York state corrections officer was found guilty Monday of murdering prisoner Robert Brooks last year, but two other guards were acquitted of contributing to his death. Jurors in Oneida ...

A former New York state prison guard was found guilty of murder Monday in the death of an inmate who was beaten while handcuffed, while two other guards were acquitted for their roles in the attack ...

Following the murders of two Black men by corrections officers, Gov. Hochul signed legislation requiring surveillance ...

UTICA, N.Y. — Three former upstate New York prison guards on trial in the fatal beating of a Black handcuffed inmate took part in an act of “sheer, unimaginable brutality,” a prosecutor told a jury ...