Once inside a private exam room at Marcy Correctional Facility, near Syracuse, New York, on Dec. 9, officers beat and choked ...

The announcement landed with a thud in two rural communities in upstate New York. After months of ... of prison closures since 2011: Sullivan Correctional Facility in the Catskills and Great ...

A correctional officer has pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the December death of inmate Robert Brooks, whose brutal beating ...