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

Brooks wasn’t able to join the “second-chance club,” as his father called it, after corrections officers violently beat him ...

Kathy Hochul of New ... Robert Brooks, who was beaten by prison guards, should prompt the swift filing of criminal charges. By Ed Shanahan An autopsy has found that the death of a New York State ...

At a joint legislative budget hearing on Thursday, Robert Ricks—the grieving father of a man murdered by corrections staff ...

NEW YORK — The family of an inmate who died after being beaten by prison guards in an upstate New York facility has filed a civil rights lawsuit. Body camera video from Dec. 9, 2024 shows ...

SYRACUSE — The death of inmate Robert L. Brooks, who was brutally beaten by multiple New York state corrections officers, has been ruled a homicide, according to a family lawyer. Elizabeth Mazur ...

New York's state prison system is under scrutiny ... Body camera footage shows 43-year-old Robert Brooks in handcuffs and a green prison uniform. Brooks is Black, and he's surrounded by 14 prison ...

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 ... an all-male state prison about 50 miles ...

Syracuse, N.Y. — 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 news reports about and video of the New York prison treatment of Robert Brooks ... from Marcy prison released in December by the state Attorney General's Office revealed multiple officers ...