6th Officer Charged in Robert Brooks Case

Utica, N.Y. — Two top New York state prison officials were talking late last year about an investigation into an inmate’s death days earlier at a Central New York prison. Then a thought came ...
A statement from Gov. Kathy Hochul says that corrections officers who beat Marcy Correctional Facility inmate Robert Brooks have been charged with murder and are being arrested. Body cameras worn ...
The beating of Robert Brooks by multiple officers at Marcy Correctional Facility in December was caught on body-cameras, triggering widespread outrage and calls for justice. Hohcul released this ...
Utica, N.Y. — Robert Brooks Jr. called for justice for his dad at a news conference Thursday in Utica after nine prison guards were charged in the beating death of his father. “I will never ...
Lyons, Managing Editor Feb 20, 2025 A correction officer stomps on the genital area of Robert L. Brooks as other officers hold him down on an infirmary bed at Marcy Correctional Facility on Dec. 9 ...
Ten individuals have been charged in connection with the violent beating that led to the death of inmate Robert Brooks, with six corrections officers now facing second-degree murder charges.
The fallout from the fatal beating by guards in December of handcuffed prisoner Robert Brooks in an upstate New York correctional facility and long-rising resentment over prison conditions among ...
Ten New York corrections employees have been indicted by a grand jury for the death of inmate Robert Brooks Sr. at Marcy Correctional Facility upstate. Brooks, 43, died the day after he was ...
Robert Brooks, a 43-year-old Black man, died in the early hours of December 10 after he was beaten by multiple correctional officers at Marcy Correctional Facility, an all-male state prison about ...