Zambito covers energy, transportation and economic growth for the USA Today Network’s New York State team. He recently ...

A handcuffed inmate whose fatal beating by correctional officers last year sparked outrage died by homicide, according to ...

The death of a handcuffed and shackled inmate who was attacked by officers at a New York State prison has been declared a ...

Steve Coleman was kept for 21 months after his parole date because the state could not find a nursing home placement.

State of the Judiciary address given yesterday by the chief judge of New York’s highest court, Rowan Wilson, is usually a ...

Gov. Kathy Hochul of New York said the autopsy results in the death of Robert Brooks, who was beaten by prison guards, should ...

Robert Brooks, 43, was brutally beaten with his hands tied behind his back by corrections officers while in custody at Marcy ...

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul has called for criminal charges to be filed and arrests to be made after an autopsy report ...

Leaders of the union representing thousands of N.Y. correction officers issued a vote of "no confidence" this week for ...

Her proposals include a new unit called The Future of Prisons in New York State that would create a strategy for safer ...

The autopsy reported that Brooks died from “compression of the neck and multiple blunt-impact injuries,” a family lawyer said ...

A handcuffed inmate whose fatal beating by correctional ... of Mr. Brooks deserves no further delays.” Office of the New York State Attorney General Robert Brooks, who died on Dec. 10 after ...