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Dad of Robert Brooks, inmate beaten to death, goes to Albany to call for NY prison reforms
Brooks wasn’t able to join the “second-chance club,” as his father called it, after corrections officers violently beat him to death two months ago in a Central New York prison. On Thursday, Brooks' father, Robert Ricks, spoke at a joint state Assembly and Senate budget hearing held in the Legislative Office Building in Albany.
Fatal beating of shackled NY inmate Robert Brooks ruled a homicide
Robert Brooks, 43, was brutally beaten with his hands tied behind his back by corrections officers while in custody at Marcy Correction Facility on Dec. 9. At the time of the attack, he was serving a sentence for first-degree assault at the prison in Marcy. Brooks was pronounced dead Dec. 10 at a nearby hospital.
Former NY attorney general joins Robert Brooks' family to push for prison reform
Eric Schneiderman is advising the father of Brooks, who was beaten to death in an upstate prison late last year.
Beating death of Marcy prison inmate Robert Brooks ruled a homicide
The death of Robert Brooks, a Black man brutally beaten by corrections officers at Marcy Correctional Facility, was ruled a homicide in an autopsy report.
Death of inmate Robert Brooks, who was beaten by New York prison guards, ruled a homicide
The autopsy reported that Brooks died from “compression of the neck and multiple blunt-impact injuries,” a family lawyer said.
Video of inmate's beating death leads to calls for NY change: Q&A with USA TODAY's Zambito
Zambito covers energy, transportation and economic growth for the USA Today Network’s New York State team. He recently reported on the beating death of an inmate at a state prison in Utica and what it's revealed about both violence in New York's prisons and the pivotal role of body cams in investigating potential police and guard brutality.
NYC rally demands justice for Robert Brooks after death in NY prison
Prison reform activists rallied in Harlem Saturday, continuing to demand justice for Robert Brooks after his death at Marcy Correctional Facility in December. The 43-year-old inmate could be seen on body cam footage being beaten by more than a dozen corrections officers before his death.
Robert Brooks' Father Calls For Justice
The father of Robert Brooks, who died after being beaten by Marcy Correctional Facility officers, was in Albany to call for justice.
Father of Robert Brooks seeks justice and prison reform
While Robert Ricks said it was imperative for lawmakers to address “the level of evilness, that level of unaccountability that takes place inside the prison system" following his son's death, he was hesitant to call for the removal of the state’s prison commissioner,
Family of Robert Brooks speaks to lawmakers at the NYS Capitol building
The father of Robert Brooks Sr., the NYS inmate who was beaten to death on camera inside the Marcy Correctional Facility in December.
New York governor calls for criminal charges in beating death of Robert Brooks after autopsy rules it a homicide
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul has called for criminal charges to be filed and arrests to be made after an autopsy report ...
DOCCS Commissioner addresses death of Robert Brooks, questioned by lawmakers at Capital
"Let me begin by expressing my deepest sympathies the family of Robert Brooks, who was tragically and senselessly murdered at ...
Autopsy shows New York inmate who was beaten while handcuffed died by homicide, lawyer says
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul said authorities should now move quickly and pursue criminal charges against those responsible for ...
How Marcy body cameras turned a secret assault into a reckoning at NY prisons
None of the prison officers appeared to know their body cameras would passively record a vicious beating that led to the death of Robert Brooks.
Death of New York man beaten by prison guards ruled a homicide in autopsy report, lawyers say
Lawyers say the death of a handcuffed man who was pummeled by New York prison guards was ruled a homicide in an autopsy ...