At a joint legislative budget hearing on Thursday, Robert Ricks—the grieving father of a man murdered by corrections staff while in state custody—urged lawmakers to reform New York's carceral system.

New York’s governor says prison workers are being arrested today on murder charges in the death of an inmate who was beaten while handcuffed. The beating of 43-year-old Robert Brooks

Robert Brooks Jr. claimed in a federal lawsuit filed in January that his father’s attackers “systematically and casually beat him to death” and that the prison system tolerates violence.

At least six additional people could face charges in the fatal beating of an inmate two months ago in a Central New York prison, prosecutors said. Three of the people have entered into plea agreements with Onondaga County District Attorney William Fitzpatrick,

Marcy Correctional Facility in upstate New York has been a bastion of police brutality for years according to reports and the recent death of inmate Robert Brooks has brought even more attention to the civil rights violations running rampant at the prison.

A New York grand jury indicted officers involved in the beating death of inmate Robert Brooks Sr. at Marcy Correctional Facility for second degree murder.

An indictment is expected to be unsealed on Thursday in the death of Robert Brooks, the Greece man who corrections officers beat at Marcy Correctional Facility.

Top prison officials, like many, didn't know body cameras had recall function. DA Fitzpatrick says without video, the killing may have remained hidden.

UTICA, N.Y. — Ten former New York corrections employees have been indicted in the death of Robert Brooks, an inmate who was violently beaten while handcuffed in a prison infirmary last year ...