Jan Ransom

New York Attorney General Recuses Herself From Inquiry Into Prison Death

Thousands of corrections officers at dozens of prisons have been protesting working conditions in wildcat strikes across the state.

A 22-year-old inmate at Mid-State Correctional Facility in Marcy, N.Y., died Saturday. Nine inmates said he was viciously beaten by corrections officers.

The 61-year-old man was found unresponsive in his cell at Auburn Correctional Facility, one of dozens of state prisons where corrections officers have walked off the job over working conditions.

Gov. Kathy Hochul began sending the National Guard to New York’s prisons, where officers have refused to come to work in protest of what they say are hazardous conditions.

The attacks occurred years earlier when Bennie Thorpe worked at a state women’s prison, his accusers said. Now he runs a prison where an inmate was fatally beaten by guards.

Ingrid Lewis-Martin, Mayor Eric Adams’s former top adviser, and her son, Glenn Martin II, are charged in state court with taking $100,000 in bribes.

N.Y. Attorney General Recuses Herself in Case of Fatal Prison Beating

Guards in Fatal Prison Assault Were Accused of Beating Inmates Before

Gov. Kathy Hochul of New York moved to try to contain the fallout from the death of Robert Brooks, in which 14 corrections workers have been implicated.