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A 29-year-old man beat his cellmate to death at the Camden County jail last week, authorities said. Surveillance video showed ...
A man who beat a fellow inmate and left him to die in a cell at the Camden County jail last week has been charged with manslaughter, authorities said Wednesday. Shaquan Shields, 29, punched Edward ...
A new federal civil rights lawsuit was filed against the prison guards accused of brutally beating and killing 22-year-old ...
A former corrections officer charged in the December beating death of inmate Robert Brooks is expected to appear in court ...
Criminal justice advocates are chafing at the exclusion of measures they say are necessary to respond to Robert Brooks’ death ...
A jury awarded $5.5 million to the family of Sandy Brooks, who died at Landmark of Richton Park Rehabilitation and Nursing ...
A former corrections officer charged in the death of Marcy Correctional Facility inmate Robert Brooks was in Oneida County ...
New York lawmakers have approved a prison reform bill in response to the killing of Robert Brooks at Marcy Correctional ...
The beating deaths of two incarcerated men at Oneida County prisons has spurred a package of oversight reforms passed by the NY Senate and Assembly.
Xyere Brooks, 16, a sophomore at KIPP Cooper Norcross Academy, died Friday. Detectives are investigating the death in Camden ...
New York prisons are now short 4,500 correction officers, including the 2,000 fired for illegally striking. It’s a dangerous situation that requires, as state Inspector General Lucy Lang states, ...