The bill includes proposals that would require cameras in all areas of prisons except showers and cells, require more ...

Criminal justice advocates are chafing at the exclusion of measures they say are necessary to respond to Robert Brooks’ death ...

The omnibus bill, which lawmakers hope to pass in both chambers with just days before the legislative session’s end, is the ...

They cite the long history of abuses at Attica and the beatdown deaths of Robert Brooks, 43, at Marcy on Dec. 9, 2024, and Messiah Nantwi, 22, at Mid-State on March 1. Multiple correction officers ...

The lawyer prosecuting correction officers for murder charges said that punches to inmate Robert Brooks’ face, leading to him ...

Prison reforms, a packaging reduction bill and the Grieving Families Act could all come up for a vote before the Legislative ...

A former corrections officer charged in the December beating death of inmate Robert Brooks is expected to appear in court ...

Whether the session will end with a flurry of 11th-hour bill passings − a longtime occurrence in Albany − remains a mystery.

A decade after he broke out of an upstate New York prison and embarked on a notorious 23-day run with fellow inmate Richard ...

Members of the Black, Puerto Rican, Hispanic and Asian Legislative Caucus are calling on lawmakers to pass a slate of prison ...

Four former corrections officers from the Marcy Correctional Facility appeared in Oneida County Court, all facing charges ...

Four former correction officers from Marcy Correctional Facility charged in the December 2024 death of Robert Brooks are in ...