Brooks wasn’t able to join the “second-chance club,” as his father called it, after corrections officers violently beat him ...

It is with heavy heart that we announce the passing of Patricia, or better known a “Pat” to family and friends, at the age of 84 in Newburgh, NY ... be held at Brooks Funeral Home 481 Gidney ...

Visitation will be at Brooks Funeral Home on Friday, February 7 ... then drive to the burial site at Cedar Hill Cemetery in Newburgh, NY. which will complete the ceremony. In lieu of flowers ...

Syracuse, N.Y. — At least nine prison employees will be charged next week in sealed indictments issued by a grand jury in the ...

At a joint legislative budget hearing on Thursday, Robert Ricks—the grieving father of a man murdered by corrections staff while in state custody—urged lawmakers to reform New York’s ...

Having reported on, for example, the funeral of Ayatollah ... about bar-stool reporting for The New York Times. A month later, he was gone. Struck by sorrow, Brooks layers well-chosen words ...

In a statement, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul cited the findings and said authorities should now move quickly to file criminal charges. “Those responsible for Mr. Brooks’ death must be held ...

The death of a shackled inmate at a central New York State prison late last year has been ruled a homicide, Gov. Kathy Hochul announced Wednesday. Robert Brooks ... fight at a home in the upstate ...

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul has called for criminal charges to be filed and arrests to be made after an autopsy report determined Black inmate Robert Brooks’ fatal beating at the hands of ...

Gov. Kathy Hochul of New York said the autopsy results in the death of Robert Brooks, who was beaten by prison guards, should prompt the swift filing of criminal charges. By Ed Shanahan An autopsy ...

SYRACUSE — The death of inmate Robert L. Brooks, who was brutally beaten by multiple New York state corrections officers, has been ruled a homicide, according to a family lawyer. Elizabeth Mazur ...