Dad of Robert Brooks, inmate beaten to death, goes to Albany to call for NY prison reforms
Brooks wasn’t able to join the “second-chance club,” as his father called it, after corrections officers violently beat him ...
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Fatal beating of shackled NY inmate Robert Brooks ruled a homicide
The death of a shackled inmate at a central New York State prison late last year has been ruled a homicide, Gov. Kathy Hochul announced Wednesday. Robert Brooks, 43, was brutally beaten with his ...
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Inmate injured in Central NY state prison dies, family says
Utica, N.Y. — An inmate who was badly injured last month at a Central New York state prison has died, his family said. The inmate, Edward Sholtz, 22, died Sunday at Wynn Hospital in Utica ...