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On December 9, 2024, Robert Brooks, a 43-year-old black man, was beaten by multiple corrections officers in Marcy Correctional Facility in the town of Marcy, New York [1] and died from his injuries the following morning on December 10 at Wynn Hospital in Utica, New York. [2]
The New York affiliate of the ACLU also pointed to a “culture of officer brutality + abuse at Marcy” in a post on X. “It shouldn’t take a cold-blooded killing captured on film to be a wake ...
In 2016 Preet Bharara, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, criminally charged three correctional officers at Downstate with beating an inmate, and two other officers with filing false reports. [2] On March 10, 2022, Downstate Correctional Facility was permanently closed, due to a declining prison population in New York state.
Lemuel Warren Smith (born July 23, 1941) is an American convicted serial killer who was the first convict to kill an on-duty female corrections officer.Smith was already in prison for the murders of at least five people when he murdered prison guard Donna Payant at Green Haven Correctional Facility in 1981.
The report on a pattern and practice of police misconduct at the department in Mount Vernon, just north of New York City, is one of 12 investigations opened by the DOJ into local policing agencies ...
In 1931 there were 1,103 inmates, 726 of whom were under the age of thirty. 847 of the inmates were white, 253 were black, and 3 were other. [ 4 ] Great Meadow was dubbed a correction facility in 1954 when the governor Dewey said, "One of the most pressing needs at the present time is an institution for young offenders in need of rigid discipline."
A 2022 report about Marcy from the Correctional Association of New York, which provides independent oversight of prisons in the state, notes multiple problems at the facility, including ...
Larry Davis (May 28, 1966 – February 20, 2008), later known as Adam Abdul-Hakeem, was a man from New York City who gained notoriety in November 1986 for his shootout in the South Bronx with officers of the New York City Police Department, in which six officers were shot. Davis, asserting self-defense, was acquitted of all charges aside from ...