Hochul May Deploy National Guard as Wildcat Strikes Hit 25 N.Y. Prisons

Corrections officers, without their union’s approval, refused to show up for work to protest what they say are hazardous conditions and severe staff shortages.

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Guards Who Beat Robert Brooks Were Accused of Assaulting Inmates Before

Three of the 13 guards implicated in the savage beating of Robert Brooks had been accused in lawsuits of earlier attacks in New York prisons.

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Hochul Orders Firing of 14 Prison Workers After Fatal Attack on Inmate

Video of the deadly assault on Robert L. Brooks was “horrific,” “disturbing” and “devastating,” a lawyer for his family said after they watched it.

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