A grand jury in Oneida County has handed up charges against correction officers involved in the Dec. 9 beating of an inmate at Marcy Correctional Facility

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

The death of a man brutally beaten by corrections officers at an upstate New York prison late last year has been ruled a homicide in an autopsy, lawyers for his family said Wednesday. Robert Brooks, a 43-year-old Black man,

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.