Corrections officer involved in the beating invokes the Fifth Amendment and refuses to answer questions, including that he ...

The angry demand for immediate prison reform returned loudly to the corridors of the state Capitol on Monday. It comes in the ...

The family of Robert Brooks has filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against those involved in his death at Marcy ...

Jerry L. Louis, of Utica, appeared before Judge Robert L. Bauer and rejected a plea deal from the District Attorney's Office on one count each of second-degree murder and third-degree possession of a ...

Gov. Kathy Hochul budgeted $418 million for prison cameras after inmate Robert Brooks was beaten by officers at Marcy Correctional Facility and died.

Utica Lytrell McFayden, 39, a Daytona Beach native, passed peacefully at home on December 30, 2024. She was a 2003 graduate of Seabreeze High School who worked as a caregiver in the retirement ...

Envelopes will be available at the funeral home for this purpose. This obituary will appear in the Sunday version of the Utica Observer Dispatch (1-26-2025) and may be viewed online by visiting ...

the state attorney general's office released body camera footage last week of prison guards fatally beating an inmate at a prison in Utica; and we listen back to how a group of students at Hermon ...

The death of Robert Brooks at Marcy Correctional Facility has prompted calls by lawmakers in Albany for legislative reforms ...

The family of Robert Brooks, who was beaten to death last month at an upstate New York prison, filed a federal civil rights lawsuit Wednesday against the 17 officers under investigation in the case.

Brooks in the groin, abdomen, face and back. He was left bloodied and died hours later at a Utica hospital. Multiple federal ...

Claim against NY corrections officials alleges civil rights abuses in the "beating death" of Robert L. Brooks at Marcy ...