Albany, NY (WRGB) — A rally advocating for prison safety was held Monday, following the death of Robert Brooks, an inmate at Marcy Correctional Facility. Brooks died after being seen on body ...

What happened at Marcy is despicable and is not condoned. A state-wide, independent investigation will determine if there are other concerning issues that must be confronted to prevent future ...

Sixty-two elected officials across New York are calling on Gov. Kathy Hochul to close Marcy Correctional Facility immediately. This comes in the wake of the brutal beating of Robert Brooks by ...

Advocates for prisoners' rights at a recent rally outside the Executive Mansion in Albany for former Marcy Correctional ... meaningful reform and preventing future tragedies.” ...

Marcelia (Marcy) Elder Searcy, born on April 7, 1943, passed away peacefully in the presence of her Lord and Savior on January 15, 2025 at home with her children at her side. Marcy, a native of ...

The request was made a day after her office filed court papers seeking to have a special prosecutor handle the criminal investigation involving the Dec. 9 beating of an inmate at Marcy ...

He was brought to Marcy Correctional Facility for an unknown reason according to the family’s lawyers, where Brooks was beaten, his hands cuffed behinds his back. The family also announced a ...

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — The body camera footage of the beating of Robert Brooks offered an unflinching window into the brutality at Marcy Correctional, the kind of brutality that inmates have been ...

MARCY, N.Y. — Gov. Kathy Hochul has until March to decide whether to use special powers to shut down three state prisons; some are calling for Marcy Correctional to be one of them after staff ...

Brooks at Marcy Correctional Facility, near Utica. Video captured by body-worn cameras show the handcuffed and helpless Brooks being punched, kicked, stomped, lifted and dropped by his neck ...

But inside Marcy Correctional Facility ... some contribution towards stopping this type of violence going on in the future.” In the wake of Brooks’ death, Hochul vowed to expedite changes ...

Robert Brooks, an inmate at Marcy Correctional Facility, died after a violent beating. Robert Brooks, an inmate at Marcy Correctional Facility in Oneida County, New York, died last month ...