The Texas Department of Criminal Justice, or TDCJ, will take control and staff two prisons in Central Texas later this year ...

After declining a plea deal, a Marcy Correctional Facility officer, charged in connection with the beating death of Robert Brooks at Marcy Correctional Facility in December, was back in court Monday.

A Justice Department investigation continues into a California women’s prison that came to be called the “rape club,” in connection with what federal officials have characterized as a culture of ...

Lawmakers started discussing legislative action to address a culture of prison violence six months ago after the fatal beating of Robert Brooks at Marcy Correctional Facility in December, and the ...

Already, seven prison staffers have either been convicted at trial or pleaded guilty to a slew of charges. An eighth is ...

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

After homicides behind bars and strikes by guards, Gov. Kathy Hochul made changes to New York’s budget. That did not satisfy ...

Marcy, N.Y. — State prison officials have replaced the superintendent at a Central New York prison where guards fatally beat ...

By Benjamin Oreskes Reporting from the State Capitol in Albany, N.Y. The close of New York State’s legislative session in ...

The omnibus bill was a response in large part to the highly publicized death of Robert Brooks, a 43-year-old Black man who was beaten on Dec. 9 at the Marcy Correctional Facility upstate in Oneida ...

A new federal civil rights lawsuit was filed against the prison guards accused of brutally beating and killing 22-year-old ...

A federal lawsuit accused NY corrections officers of fatally beating Messiah Nantwi, calling it part of a pattern of abuse ...