New York’s prisons are teeming with aging inmates at increasing costs to the taxpayer, and people are no safer from crime, ...

Zambito covers energy, transportation and economic growth for the USA Today Network’s New York State team. He recently reported on the beating death of an inmate at a state prison in Utica and what it ...

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

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 ...

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

A grand jury is expected Monday to begin reviewing the case of Robert Brooks. Brooks is an inmate that died at Marcy Correctional Facility in central New York.He was seen on body camera footage being ...

New York Governor Kathy Hochul has called for swift criminal charges against those responsible for the "horrific, shocking" ...

Timothy and Quanzell Scholtz spoke about their family member Edward Sholtz, who died Jan. 5 at Wynn Hospital in Utica. The 22 ...

The death of a prisoner at an upstate New York correctional facility has been ruled a homicide. Robert L. Brooks died in ...

Union leaders representing New York correction officers issued a vote of “no confidence” for Commissioner Daniel Martuscello ...

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