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On December 9, 2024, Robert Brooks, a 43 year old black man, was transfered to Marcy Correctional Facility from Mohawk Correctional Facility and was repeatedly beaten by five officers in Marcy Correctional Facility in the town of Marcy, New York [1] [3] Starting in the Arsenal, continuing through the grounds to the infirmary then beaten inside the infirmary and died from his injuries the ...
Brooks joins a list of state inmates who have died after run-ins with New York prison guards in recent years. Samuel Harrell, Karl Taylor, Dante Taylor, Terry Cooper are among them . Their alleged ...
The Correctional Association of New York, an independent prison watchdog in the state, called the fatal incident a “vicious assault” and cited its July 2023 report finding that 70 percent of ...
The death of a handcuffed inmate who was beaten unconscious by upstate prison guards in a heinous attack caught on body camera footage was ruled a homicide, an attorney for the victim’s family ...
On March 20, 2017, Timothy Caughman, a black 66-year-old man, was collecting cans for recycling in the Hell's Kitchen neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City when James Harris Jackson, a white 28-year-old man, approached him and stabbed him multiple times with a sword. Caughman later died of his injuries.
Thomas was sentenced to from 83 to 250 years, but due to state law was expected to spend no more than 50 years in prison. [12] He ended up serving just over 32 years before being released in 2018, having served two thirds of the maximum fifty years allowed by New York State. [13] The sole survivor, an infant girl, was raised by her grandmother.
Robert Brooks, a 43-year-old man serving a 12-year sentence for assault, died in the early hours of December 10 after he was beaten by at least three officers at Marcy Correctional Facility, an ...
The last New York execution during that time had occurred in 1963, when Eddie Lee Mays was electrocuted at Sing Sing prison. There were no executions in New York after the reinstatement of the death penalty [5] before it was abolished again on June 24, 2004, when the state's highest court ruled in People v.