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

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

The correctional association, according to the lawsuit filed by Brooks' family, “had been sounding alarms for years about the culture of violence at Marcy and the risk to Robert Brooks and ...

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.

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, ...

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

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 ...

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