Zambito covers energy, transportation and economic growth for the USA Today Network’s New York State team. He recently ...

The new rates vary by facility size and type. At the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola—and at all other state ...

A feature built into the body cameras worn by Marcy prison guards allowed state corrections officials to retrieve footage hours after the incident.

A new HBO documentary set for release later this year exposes the violence inside Alabama prisons using leaked cellphone ...

Syracuse, N.Y. — Dozens of protesters called Thursday afternoon for murder charges against corrections officers involved in the fatal December beating of an inmate ... on video by body cameras ...

The death of Robert Brooks, a Black man brutally beaten by corrections officers at Marcy Correctional Facility, was ruled a ...

New York's state prison system is under scrutiny after guards fatally beat an inmate last month. North Country Public Radio's Emily Russell reports the incident prompted protests and calls for ...

None of the prison officers appeared to know their body cameras would passively record a vicious beating that led to the death of Robert Brooks.

The recordings showed Robert Brooks, a 43-year-old inmate recently ... to be used in prisons. As the Brooks family’s lawsuit progresses, lawmakers in Albany are calling for legislative reforms ...