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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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, ...

New York State Police say they arrested Cody M. Mallon, 19, of Argyle following investigation into a report of trespass at the former Downstate Correctional Facility in Dutchess County Saturday.