Officials Knew About Violence in Prison Where Robert Brooks Was Fatally Beaten
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An independent watchdog group called on New York state officials to investigate racist discrimination and “rampant abuse” by staff at the Marcy Correctional Facility back in 2023. On December 9, a group of guards at the state prison viciously beat prisoner Robert Brooks, a 43-year-old Black man who died in hospital the next day. Body camera footage of the fatal assault was released to the…