fromThe New Yorker
2 days agoThe Crisis in New York State Prisons
Prisons are a closed world, and it was their word against the officers'. Who would believe them? And then, last December, a group of guards killed a man named Robert Brooks in a state prison near Utica—punching him, shoving a rag into his mouth, hitting him with his own shoe, and stomping on his groin. Unbeknownst to the officers, they had inadvertently videotaped their actions on their own body-worn cameras.
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