The Legislature did its job passing changes in the wake of two killings; the governor needs to act with speed to make them law.

A former prison guard has pleaded guilty to submitting a false form in the beating death of an inmate at Mid-State Correctional Facility, according to our Utica NBC affiliate.

On Dec. 9, 43-year-old Robert L. Brooks was beaten to death by correction officers at Marcy Correctional Facility, which is next door to Mid-State prison, near Utica.

In a court order this week, Judge Daniel Lynch wrote that the state Department of Corrections and Community Supervision ...

Utica, N.Y. — A third New York state corrections officer has pleaded guilty in connection with the fatal beating of an inmate earlier this year at a Central New York prison. The corrections officer, ...

In December, days before legislators returned to work in Albany, footage surfaced of corrections officers fatally beating a handcuffed prisoner, Robert Brooks, at Marcy Correctional Facility near ...

One of the correction officers indicted related to the beating death of an inmate at the Mid-State Correctional Facility has admitted to his role in the cover-up. Nicholas ...

Town Board members said they were not told by Supervisor Bill McKenna that a person they voted to hire for a Maintenance ...

Three of four men who escaped from a minimum-security facility in Columbus, Ohio, have been apprehended. The escape occurred on May 22, and the men face felony escape charges. One escapee, 45-year ...

Nicholas Vitale II, 33, of Holland Patent, pleaded guilty before Oneida County Court Judge Michael R. Nolan Tuesday morning, ...