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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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HEARINGS FOR ROBERT BROOKS' KILLERS TO START BUT LETITIA JAMES DOESN'T WANT YOU TO SEE THEM
NEW YORK STATE ATTORNEY GENERAL LETITIA JAMES IS FIGHTING TO KEEP THE PUBLIC OUT OF DISCIPLINARY HEARINGS FOR THE PRISON GUARDS AND NURSES WHO KILLED OR FAILED TO STOP THE KILLING OF ROBERT BROOKS

SIXTH STATE PRISON GUARD CHARGED WITH MURDERING ROBERT BROOKS
NICHOLAS KIEFFER, 33, HELPED START BEATING THAT LED TO BROOKS' DEATH, INDICTMENT UNSEALED ON MONDAY AGAINST HIM ALLEGES

'PULL THE PIN' IS THE ANTHEM OF NEW YORK'S STRIKING PRISON GUARDS
THE HEAVY METAL SONG WAS ALLEGEDLY MADE BY A CORRECTION OFFICER AT THE GREENE CORRECTIONAL FACILITY IN THE HUDSON VALLEY

PRISONERS SAY JONATHAN GRANT'S DEATH AT AUBURN LIKELY DUE TO NY GUARD STRIKE
DIABETIC LOCKED INSIDE CELL 24-HOURS A DAY, DENIED EMERGENCY SNACK

GUARDS SAY STRIKE 'TRAPPED' THEM IN NY PRISON, SOME FREED ON SUNDAY
CORRECTION OFFICERS AT FRANKLIN CORRECTIONAL FACILITY SAY THEY WERE 'TRAPPED’ FOR A WEEK BECAUSE OF A STRIKE BY THEIR COLLEAGUES

2,000 MORE NAT'L GUARD TROOPS DEPLOYED, AS STRIKE BY NY STATE PRISON GUARDS DRAGS ON
INITIAL DEPLOYMENT OF 3,500 SOLDIERS RISES TO 5,600. 1000s MORE LIKELY.

NAT’L GUARD TROOPS SLEEP IN CELLS AS STRIKE BY NYS PRISON GUARDS ENTERS 6TH DAY
GOV. KATHY HOCHUL APPEARS TO CAVE TO STRIKING PRISON GUARDS' MAJOR DEMANDS, BUT GUARDS STAY ON STRIKE.

MURDER CHARGES FOR THE PRISON GUARDS WHO KILLED ROBERT BROOKS
SEALED INDICTMENT CHARGES 5 GUARDS WITH SECOND DEGREE MURDER, FACE LIFE IN PRISON
STRIKING PRISON GUARDS HOLD HOCHUL HOSTAGE; DEFY GOVERNOR, FORCE NAT'L GUARD DEPLOYMENT
'NOBODY BELIEVES YOU' GUARDS TELL NEW YORK GOV. KATHY HOCHUL
UNION LEADERS PRESENT LIST OF DEMANDS AS STRIKE BY STATE PRISON GUARDS ENTERS PERILOUS NEW PHASE
WITH THE NATIONAL GUARD READYING TO DEPLOY INSIDE NY'S PRISONS, STATE OFFICIALS AND UNION LEADERS HELD PEACE TALKS IN ALBANY TUESDAY AFTERNOON
GUARDS ON STRIKE AT 25 STATE PRISONS; ‘DOOMSDAY’ PLAN ACTIVATED; NAT’L GUARD TO DEPLOY
‘THE FIRES HAVE BEEN LIT. THE LIST IS GROWING’

'LET THE BOYS IN BLUE TAKE BACK THEIR PRISONS': STRIKE BY NY GUARDS SPREADS
WIVES DEMAND HELP FROM GOV. KATHY HOCHUL

NYS PRISON GUARDS START WILDCAT STRIKE AT ELMIRA AND COLLINS
'THERE MAY BE MORE PRISONS THAT FOLLOW'

ARRESTS FOR ROBERT BROOKS KILLING BY GUARDS AT THE MARCY CORECTIONAL FACILITY COMING
COPS & CONVICTS: THE FREE LANCE ON DUTY RON, INDICTMENT OF ROBERT BROOKS KILLERS

A BLACK TRANS MAN FLEW TO NY FOR LOVE —SAM NORDQUIST WAS TORTURED TO DEATH BY FEMALE LOVER’S CRACK GANG FOR 2 MONTHS
'THEY GOT A SICK HIGH OUT OF IT'

'MURDER SHOULD BE THE CHARGE': ROBERT BROOKS FATHER DEMANDS, KILLER GUARDS INDICTED
RICHARD RICKS SPEAKS OUT AS NEWS BREAKS GUARDS WHO KILLED HIS SON CHARGED IN SECRET INDICTMENT TO BE UNVEILED TUESDAY

NY PRISON CHIEF IGNORED 'TICKING TIME-BOMB' 3 1/2 MONTHS BEFORE GUARDS KILLED ROBERT BROOKS
'HE DISMISSED IT NONCHALANTLY. HE SAID 'THEY'RE TOO MANY CAMERAS INSIDE THE PRISONS FOR THAT TO HAPPEN.’’

NEW JERSEY APPEALS COURT TO DECIDE MAJOR DIGITAL AGE PRESS FREEDOM CASE
A NEW JERSEY JUDGE STRIPPED THE PUBLIC OF ITS RIGHT TO SEE EXHIBITS IN CRIMINAL CASES, WILL AN APPEALS COURT GIVE IT BACK?

GOV., PROTESTERS: KILLING OF ROBERT BROOKS BY PRISON GUARD GANG 'MURDER'
GRAND JURY TO CONSIDER CHARGES ON MONDAY, SPECIAL PROSECUTOR WILLIAM J. FITZPATRICK SAYS

ONE OF ROBERT BROOKS’ ALLEGED KILLERS CAN KEEP HIS GUNS, COURT REJECTS AG EFFORT TO DISARM GUARD
STATE SUPREME COURT JUSTICE RULES DAVID J. KINGSLEY, CAPTURED ON VIDEO CHOKING ROBERT BROOKS, CAN KEEP HIS GUNS FOR NOW