Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The family of Robert Brooks has filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against those involved in his death, calling it “…torture and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Robert Brooks' death at Marcy Correction Facility in December has been ruled a homicide by the Onondaga County Medical Examiner’s ...

Judge denies former prison guard’s request to withdraw guilty plea in Robert Brooks’ death ‘Mad at the system’; Son of Robert Brooks calls for prison reform after verdict in father’s death One former ...

When Robert Brooks pleaded guilty to stabbing his former girlfriend upstate in 2016, he got a 12-year sentence, but instead he received what amounted to the death penalty, dying following a savage ...

ALBANY — Gov. Kathy Hochul on Wednesday called for "the full force of the justice system" to be wielded in the case of a prisoner who died after a beating by correction officers that she says is being ...

The trial for three of the four corrections officers charged in the death of Robert Brooks continues and the jury begins its third day of deliberation. Brooks, an incarcerated individual transferred ...

At least three of the officers involved in the fatal beating of Robert Brooks, a New York man held at the Marcy Correctional Facility in upstate New York, were previously accused of assault, according ...

Video evidence of the brutal beating of Robert L. Brooks has sparked outrage and calls for accountability. Robert Brooks’ loved ones are expressing outrage over his Dec. 9 in-custody beating while ...