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 ...
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Death of inmate Robert Brooks, who was beaten by New York prison guards, ruled a homicide
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 ...
Push for NYS prison reform from father of Marcy inmate who died after beating
The father of Robert Brooks, the man who died after being beaten by Marcy Corrections officers, was at the New York State Capitol. He met with New York lawmakers ...
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WATCH: Father of Robert Brooks testifies before New York State Legislature
At a joint legislative budget hearing on Thursday, Robert Ricks—the grieving father of a man murdered by corrections staff ...
At least 9 NY state prison employees to be charged in death of inmate Robert Brooks, source says
At least nine prison employees will be charged next week in sealed indictments issued by a grand jury in the death of inmate Robert Brooks, according to a source familiar with the case. The ...
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How Marcy body cameras turned a secret assault into a reckoning at NY prisons
The inmate, Robert Brooks ... Brooks joins a list of state inmates who died after run-ins with New York prison guards in recent years: Samuel Harrell, Karl Taylor, Dante Taylor, Terry Cooper ...
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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 ... one led by a prison official on YouTube: The Shocking Murder of Robert Brooks ...
New York lawmakers question the corrections commissioner on staffing levels in prisons
"The staffing issue in the Department of Corrections is the number one issue in the state of New York of any agency we have," said NYS Sen. Robert Rolison (R-39th District), while questioning NYDOCCS ...
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Top Judge Favors a Second Chance for Those Languishing in Prison
Rowan Wilson, the chief judge of New York State’s highest court ... The second-look bill would allow people serving prison terms of 10 years or longer to apply to judges and ask them to re ...
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Protesting the state’s proposed new prison facility
SOUTH BURLINGTON, Vt. (WCAX) - A big rally Saturday outside Vermont’s only women’s prison. State officials are looking to build a new facility but some believe prison’s are not the answer.
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Rockview state prison in Centre County slated for closure under Shapiro administration plan
Rockview state ... with new hires. Specialized units, including the state’s execution chamber currently located at Rockview, could also be supported by Benner Township state prison, the report ...
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The order to drop the corruption case against New York’s mayor presents her with ... The attorney general sued the state, citing a law allowing New Yorkers to get a driver’s license regardless ...