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Dec. 26, 2024
PRISON GUARD 'BEAT-UP SQUAD’ KILLED ROBERT BROOKS, OPERATED FOR YEARS, ATTORNEY GENERAL LETITIA JAMES'S OFFICE KNEW IT
2023 DEPOSITION IN FEDERAL CIVIL RIGHTS LAWSUIT WARNED STATE OFFICIALS OF PRISON GUARD ‘BEAT-UP SQUAD’ THAT KILLED ROBERT BROOKS
Mar. 4, 2025
BEHIND THE BARRELS: HOW A MESS HALL BRAWL SPARKED THE WILDCAT STRIKE BY NYS PRISON GUARDS
A MENTALLY-ILL PRISONER WITH A HISTORY OF ATTACKING POLICE APPEARS TO HAVE CATALYZED GUARDS' CONCERN WITH THE HALT ACT
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‘SICKENED’: NY GOV. KATHY HOCHUL VISITS PRISON WHERE GUARDS KILLED ROBERT BROOKS, VOWS CHANGE
GOV. KATHY HOCHUL SAID SHE WAS "SICKENED TO THINK OF THE ACTIONS OF DEPRAVED INDIVIDUALS WHO NO REGARD FOR HUMAN LIFE.
MIRACLE AT MARCY: WILLIAM ALVAREZ SURVIVED WHITE PRISON GUARD GANG THAT KILLED ROBERT BROOKS
WILLIAM ALVAREZ IS A VERY LUCKY MAN. HE SURVIVED THE BEAT-UP SQUAD AT THE MARCY CORRECTIONAL FACILITY THAT KILLED ROBERT BROOKS
WILL A SPECIAL PROSECUTOR BE APPOINTED TO INVESTIGATE THE KILLING OF ROBERT BROOKS BY A PRISON GUARD BEAT-UP SQUAD?
ATTORNEY GENERAL LETITIA JAMES IS ALREADY DEFENDING THE LEADER OF THE PRISON GUARD ‘BEAT-UP SQUAD’ ACCUSED OF KILLING ROBERT BROOKS AGAINST A LAWSUIT ACCUSING HIM OF CHOKING, BEATING ANOTHER PRISONER
WORSE THAN GEORGE FLOYD: VIDEO SHOWS PRISON 'BEAT-UP SQUAD' KILLING INMATE ROBERT BROOKS
ROBERT BROOKS WAS SERVING A 12-YEAR SENTENCE AT THE MARCY CORRECTIONAL FACILITY IN NEW YORK WHEN HE WAS BEATEN AND CHOKED BY A SQUAD OF PRISON GUARDS. HE DIED DEC. 10.
PRISON GUARD 'BEAT-UP SQUAD’ KILLED ROBERT BROOKS, OPERATED FOR YEARS, ATTORNEY GENERAL LETITIA JAMES'S OFFICE KNEW IT
2023 DEPOSITION IN FEDERAL CIVIL RIGHTS LAWSUIT WARNED STATE OFFICIALS OF PRISON GUARD ‘BEAT-UP SQUAD’ THAT KILLED ROBERT BROOKS
THROWBACK: THE PRISON GUARD ‘BEAT-UP SQUAD’ SO SCARY THEY DROVE A MENTALLY ILL INMATE TO SUICIDE
FISHKILL CORRECTIONAL FACILITY IS SUPPOSED TO TAKE CARE OF MENTALLY ILL PEOPLE LIKE BENJAMIN VAN ZANT, WHO AS A SCHIZOPHRENIC TEEN. IT TURNED OUT TO BE A DEATH SENTENCE.
THROWBACK: SAMUEL HARRELL DIED IN PRISON AFTER A VISIT FROM 'THE BEAT-UP SQUAD.' WHY HAS NO ONE BEEN HELD ACCOUNTABLE FOR HIS DEATH?
SAMUEL HARRELL WAS KILLED BY A 'BEAT-UP SQUAD' OF CORRECTIONS OFFICERS IN 2015 AT THE FISHKILL CORRECTIONAL FACILITY
'WE'RE GOING TO FIGHT': LUIGI MANGIONE’S LAWYER VOWS COURTROOM BATTLE
WOMEN SMILE IN COURT AS LAWYER OF ALLEGED ASSASSIN ATTACKS NEW YORK CITY MAYOR ERIC ADAMS FOR PRESUMING HER CLIENT'S GUILT
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WHO WERE THE LOCO FOCOS AND WHEN WILL THEY RISE AGAIN?
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“IN OVER THREE DECADES OF PROSECUTION, I HAVE NEVER SEEN ANYTHING LIKE THIS,” DEFENSE LAWYER SAYS
ANDREW CUOMO SUES ACCUSER CHARLOTTE BENNETT FOR DEFAMATION
FORMER NEW YORK STATE GOVERNOR ALLEGES BENNETT LIED
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SAINT LUIGI: A GOOD OUTLAW IS AMERICAN LIKE APPLE PIE
THE OUTPOURING OF POPULAR SUPPORT FOR ALLEGED ASSASSIN LUIGI MANGIONE IS PART OF A LONG AMERICAN TRADITION OF HONOR OUTLAWS
NYPD TO CEOs: DON'T SHOW YOUR FACE IN NEW YORK CITY
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