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 ...
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.
Protester interrupts NYS Legislature budget hearing on health issues
A New York State Legislature budget hearing on health issues was briefly interrupted today by a protester demanding justice for Robert Brooks, a prison inmate w ...
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New York lawmakers push prison reform after inmate death
The death of Robert Brooks at Marcy Correctional Facility has prompted legislative efforts to reform New York’s prison ...
N.Y. chief judge pushes for giving inmates a second chance in annual address, says system ‘isn’t working’
New York’s prisons are teeming with aging inmates at increasing costs to the taxpayer, and people are no safer from crime, ...
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Grand jury expecting to review inmate beating death
A grand jury is expected Monday to begin reviewing the case of Robert Brooks. Brooks is an inmate that died at Marcy Correctional Facility in central New York.He was seen on body camera footage being ...
NY Chief Judge Targets 'Over-Incarceration,' Endorses Bill to Allow Review of Lengthy Sentences
New York Chief Judge Rowan Wilson, at his State of the Judiciary address, shared the podium with the head of corrections and ...
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 ...
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Behind the hidden feature 'providing pretty important evidence' in Marcy prison beating
A feature built into the body cameras worn by Marcy prison guards allowed state corrections officials to retrieve footage hours after the incident.
Every cop should have body camera feature that captured inmate’s beating (Editorial Board Opinion)
Onondaga County's three largest police agencies don't use video recall, which records automatically even when the body camera ...
New York corrections commissioner gets vote of 'no confidence'
Leaders of the union representing thousands of N.Y. correction officers issued a vote of "no confidence" this week for ...
Gov. Kathy Hochul to push for prison reform after death of inmate
Her proposals include a new unit called The Future of Prisons in New York State that would create a strategy for safer ...