NY Gov. Kathy Hochul to Sign Prison Reform Bill After Beatings and Deaths NYT | Top Stories By: Benjamin Oreskes and Jan Ransom 20 December 2025 at 03:24 Prison guards have been accused of more than 120 acts of brutality that amounted to torture in the past decade in New York, a Times investigation found. © José A. Alvarado Jr. for The New York TimesCorrections officers viciously beat to death a handcuffed prisoner, Robert L. Brooks, at the Marcy Correctional Facility near Utica, N.Y., last year.