The son of Robert Brooks, an inmate who died after a prolonged beating by New York prison guards, has filed a federal lawsuit ...

The governor has ordered all state employees involved in the beating — two nurses and 16 corrections officers — to be fired.

Hochul's fiscal year 2026 budget proposal includes $8 million to bolster security at the northern border and "power-ready" ...

Governor Kathy Hochul’s 2025-26 budget includes over $425 million to address violence in New York prisons following an inmate ...

Gov. Kathy Hochul is asking the state Legislature for more than $425 million to boost security in New York prisons.

A New York State Assemblyman spent the night at the Marcy Correctional Facility Tuesday night in hopes that his calls for its ...

Claim against NY corrections officials alleges civil rights abuses in the "beating death" of Robert L. Brooks at Marcy ...

Several New York politicians penned a letter to Governor Kathy Hochul asking to close Marcy Correctional Facility following ...

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The son of Robert Brooks Sr. said in a federal lawsuit Wednesday that his father's attackers "systematically and casually ...

QUARTER OF A TRILLION CLAMS: Gov. Kathy Hochul unveiled her much-anticipated $252 billion budget from Albany this afternoon — ...

Brooks was in his seventh year of a 12-year sentence for stabbing his longtime girlfriend in 2016. He died on Dec. 10, 2024, ...