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This image provided by the New York State Attorney General's office shows body camera footage of correction officers beating a handcuffed man, Robert Brooks, at the Marcy Correctional Facility in Oneida County, N.Y., Dec. 9, 2024.

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Commentary, Opinion

July 17, 2026

Violent prisons and a vicious cycle in New York

There's an old ploy of dropping bad news late on a Friday. The state Department of Corrections and C...

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