After being caught, Ramirez was convicted of 13 counts of murder, five attempted murders, 11 sexual assaults, and 14 ...

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

Content warning: This story contains graphic images and descriptions of a beating that led to the death of an inmate. The yellow glare from prison floodlights obscures the camera’s view as it ...

“That was a surprise to me.” The federal lawsuit Brooks’ family filed in January claims Marcy prison guards purposefully carried out the beating in the infirmary because they knew fixed ...

A 15-year-old Florida boy has been sentenced to 25 years in prison for the beating and rape of a 91-year-old woman. Jesse Stone, 14 years old at the time of the incident, also will receive 30 years of ...

SYRACUSE — The death of inmate Robert L. Brooks, who was brutally beaten by multiple New York state corrections officers, has been ruled a homicide, according to a family lawyer. Elizabeth Mazur ...

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — The death of a handcuffed man who was pummeled by New York prison guards was ruled a homicide in an autopsy report, lawyers for his family said Wednesday. The report issued ...

New York mobster Joseph O’Kane, who testified as a defense witness for friend John Gotti Jr. last fall, has been murdered in prison, the website Gangland News reported. Joseph O’Kane, 44, was stabbed ...