New York Gov. Kathy Hochul said authorities should now move quickly and pursue criminal charges against those responsible for ...

The autopsy reported that Brooks died from “compression of the neck and multiple blunt-impact injuries,” a family lawyer said ...

The son of Robert Brooks, an inmate who died after a prolonged beating by New York prison guards, has filed a federal lawsuit ...

About 50 people gathered outside the Onondaga County District Attorney's Office calling for murder charges to be brought to ...

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul has called for criminal charges to be filed and arrests to be made after an autopsy report determined Black inmate Robert Brooks’ fatal beating at the hands of correctional ...

Dozens of protesters called Thursday afternoon for murder charges against corrections officers involved in the fatal December beating of an inmate in a Central New York prison. The protesters stood in ...

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — The death of a handcuffed man who was pummeled by New York prison guards was ruled a homicide in an autopsy report, lawyers for his family said Wednesday.

The brutal murder of Robert Brooks at Marcy Correctional Facility starkly exposes the systemic failures festering within the New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision (DOCCS).

Robert L. Brooks Sr., 43, died on Dec. 10, a day after the beating at Marcy Correctional Facility in upstate New York. Body camera video shows officers repeatedly punching and kicking Brooks ...

Timothy and Quanzell Scholtz spoke about their family member Edward Sholtz, who died Jan. 5 at Wynn Hospital in Utica. The 22 ...

Lawmakers in Albany are calling for transparency and accountability of New York’s prison system. This comes after video of ...

NEW YORK — The ... guards in an upstate New York facility has filed a civil rights lawsuit. Body camera video from Dec. 9, 2024 shows officers punching Robert L. Brooks Sr., ...