Longtime Republican District Attorney William Fitzpatrick is asking Albany for a change that more than 20 other states have ...

The proposed Duty to Intervene and Accountability Act would require corrections officers, police officers and state troopers to intervene when they witness unjustifiable force.

The special prosecutor in these cases is fighting to make hands off, eyes on, a crime, in these cases. "I have advocated for ...

Officer-worn camera footage of the fatal beating of Robert Brooks at the Marcy Correctional Facility on Dec. 9, 2024. — New York State Attorney General's Office A jury convicted one former New York ...

UTICA, N.Y. – Two of the three correction officers on trial for the death of inmate Robert Brooks were acquitted, our sister station WKTV reported. Nicholas Kieffer and Mathew Galliher were found not ...

UTICA, N.Y. — Closing arguments were given Wednesday in the trial of three former prison guards charged with second-degree murder in the death of Robert Brooks. It took attorneys six days to rest ...

A former Marcy Correctional Facility officer was sentenced Thursday in Oneida County Court to four years in prison for the death of inmate Robert Brooks.

Rochester, N.Y. (WHAM) — Jury deliberations are underway in the murder trial of three former corrections officers charged in the killing of an inmate at a New York state prison. Robert Brooks, 43, of ...

Nine corrections officers have been before the judge, and two have accepted plea bargains — Christopher Walrath and Nicholas Gentile. Walrath was recently sentenced to 15 years in federal prison. An ...