FORMER GUARD DAVID KINGSLEY GETS MAXIMUM 25-YEARS-TO-LIFE SENTENCE. ONLY ONE TO APOLOGIZE FOR THE KILLING

SHERRI ABREU ALLEGEDLY SICCED A GANG ON ROBERT BROOKS AT THE MOHAWK CORRECTIONAL FACILITY, TRIGGERING HIS TRANSFER TO MARCY WHERE HE WAS MURDERED BY GUARDS

THE SPEECHLESS, AUTISTIC CHILD WAS PLACED IN A PADDED, WOODEN BOX BY SCHOOL OFFICIALS ON AN INDIAN RESERVATION IN UPSTATE NEW YORK,HIS GRANDMOTHER SAYS

HALT SOLITARY CONFINEMENT ACT WAS MEANT TO MAKE NEW YORK'S PRISONS MORE HUMANE. FEMALE PRISONERS SAY IT MAKES THEM MORE VIOLENT. WILL GOV. KATHY HOCHUL AND STATE LAWMAKERS FIX IT?

JOURNALISTS DEPEND ON LISTENING TO POLICE RADIO BROADCASTS TO KEEP THE PUBLIC INFORMED BUT POLICE ARE MAKING THEM SECRET

STATE SUPREME COURT JUSTICE JAMES P. MCCLUSKY GRANTED DAVID WALTERS RELEASE ON BAIL. MCCLUSKY GOT CAMPAIGN DONATIONS FROM A LAWYER WHO DEFENDED ANOTHER GUARD ACCUSED OF KILLING BROOKS

DECISION CALLS INTO QUESTION GUILTY PLEAS OF OTHER DEFENDANTS IN THE ROBERT BROOKS AND MESIAH NANTWI CASES

STATE OFFICIALS TURN PRISON'S 'VISITOR'S CENTER' INTO MINI-PRISON

MICHAEL PEACOCK SAYS HE WAS BEATEN AND SENT TO SOLITARY CONFINEMENT IN ATTICA FOR TESTIFYING AGAINST GUARDS WHO KILLED BROOKS. PRISON OFFICIALS REFUSED TO ALLOW REPORTER TO VISIT HIM

SAID "VIOLENCE IS PART OF AMERICA'S CULTURE. IT IS AS AMERICAN AS CHERRY PIE." BECAME IMAM JAMIL ABDULLAH AL-AMIN. WAS SERVING LIFE SENTENCE FOR KILLING GEORGIA COP

ANTHONY FARINA, NICHOLAS ANZALONE, MICHAEL MASHAW AND DAVID WALTERS WERE PART OF A GANG OF WHITE GUARDS THAT KILLED BROOKS, WHO WAS BLACK, AT THE MARCY CORRECTIONAL FACILITY IN UPSTATE NEW YORK IN DECEMBER 2024

"I THOUGHT COPS WERE SUPPOSED EXPOSE LAWBREAKERS, NOT COVER UP FOR THEM."

DAVID WALTERS COPPED TO MANSLAUGHTER, AGREED TO 2 1/3-TO-7 YEAR SENTENCE FOR FAILING TO STOP OTHER GUARDS FROM KILLING ROBERT BROOKS

MEDIUM-SECURITY BARE HILL CORRECTIONAL FACILITY WILL CLOSE IN MARCH

"I WAS 3 YEARS INTO A 13 YEAR PRISON SENTENCE OF MANSLAUGHTER IN 1993 WHEN JUSTICE ANTHONY V. CARDONA SENT ME A ‘LETTER.’"

LIKE GOV. MARIO CUOMO DID, GOV. KATHY HOCHUL SHOULD USE EMINENT DOMAIN TO PROTECT A 36,600-ACRE TRACT OF PRISTINE PRIVATE WILDERNESS IN THE HEART OF ADIRONDACK PARK

POLICE AND PRISON GUARDS IN NEW YORK ACCUSED OF MAJOR MISCONDUCT AND SOMETIMES EVEN CRIMES ARE ENTITLED TO DUE PROCESS HEARINGS BUT EXCEPT FOR THE NYPD THOSE HEARINGS ARE HELD IN SECRET—THE FREE LANCE IS SUING TO OPEN THEM TO THE PUBLIC

WHICH STATES ALLOW PUBLIC ACCESS TO POLICE DISCIPLINARY HEARINGS AND RECORDS, AND WHICH DON’T.

CIVILIAN MUSLIM IMAM AT THE MARCY CORRECTIONAL FACILITY SHOT HIMSELF TO DEATH