Despite all the government’s efforts to vet applicants for government jobs requiring security clearances, sometimes the ...

NEW YORK - Senior Justice Department officials have held discussions with federal prosecutors in Manhattan about the ...

Mr. Menendez, a powerful longtime senator from New Jersey, was convicted last year on federal bribery and corruption charges.

Utica, N.Y. — State prison officials were worried last month about the safety of inmate Robert L. Brooks. He was injured after two altercations with inmates at Mohawk Correctional Facility.

U.S. District Judge Sidney H. Stein announced the sentence after Menendez tearfully addressed the judge, saying he’d lost ...

Robert Ricks is grieving the loss of his son, Robert Brooks, who died following an incident at Marcy Correctional Facility.

"Incarcerated individual Brooks was involved in two altercations with other incarcerated individuals while at Mohawk, and due ...

The father of three said Robert, his oldest child, was serving a 12-year sentence for assault, but was doing everything he could to stay out of trouble while in prison. “He would say to me every day, ...

At the time, Robert L. Brooks was serving a 12-year prison sentence for a 2016 stabbing involving his girlfriend. The couple, who shared a teenage child, were involved in a physical dispute that ...

In the first hour of "Connections with Evan Dawson" on Jan. 21, 2025, we talk with advocates for prison reform about their hopes for the justice system following the fatal beating of an inmate.