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Robert Brooks Death: Ex-Corrections Officer Gets 15 Years For Beating Of NY Inmate Robert Brooks Death: Ex-Corrections Officer Gets 15 Years For Beating Of NY Inmate
Robert Brooks Death: Ex-Corrections Officer Gets 15 Years For Beating Of NY Inmate A former New York state corrections officer was sentenced to 15 years in prison for his role in the brutal beating death of inmate Robert Brooks. Christopher Walrath, a former officer at Marcy Correctional Facility in Oneida County, learned his fate Monday, Aug. 4, after pleading guilty in May to first-degree manslaughter. Brooks, 43, had been transferred to Marcy on Dec. 9, 2024. He was attacked by a group of officers shortly after arriving, according to prosecutors. He died the next morning from what an autopsy later determined was homicide, caused by “compression of the neck and multiple…

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by Michael Mashburn
Politics
MS-13 Gang Members Who ‘Never Should Have Been In US’ Attack VA Corrections Officers: DOC MS-13 Gang Members Who ‘Never Should Have Been In US’ Attack VA Corrections Officers: DOC
MS-13 Gang Members Who ‘Never Should Have Been In US’ Attack VA Corrections Officers: DOC MS-13 gang members from El Salvador who "never should have been in this country" seriously injured several corrections officers in Virginia, state officials said. Three corrections officers were stabbed and two others injured during a targeted attack by gang members at Wallens Ridge State Prison, authorities announced. Google Maps satellite view The ambush unfolded around 9:45 a.m. on Friday, May 2, when six inmates — including five confirmed MS-13 members from El Salvador and a sixth member of the Sureño 13 gang from the US — allegedly turned on officers in what the Virginia Department o…

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by Zak Failla
Police & Fire
'I Strangled Him': Suttfield Inmate Murdered Cellmate, Laid Body On Table, Police Said 'I Strangled Him': Suttfield Inmate Murdered Cellmate, Laid Body On Table, Police Said
'I Strangled Him': Suttfield Inmate Murdered Cellmate, Laid Body On Table, Police Said Kyle McKinnon started his morning on Dec. 12, 2024, like hundreds of others at MacDougall-Walker Correctional Institution — with one major exception: He murdered his cellmate, police said. The 31-year-old New London man climbed down from his top bunk, used the restroom, and washed his hands, but a nagging fact in the back of his mind made him change up his routine. That's when he turned to his cellmate, Kenneth Montaner Buscampeil — a 26-year-old serving a fourth-degree sexual assault conviction — wrapped his hands around the man's throat and choked him to death, a state police inv…

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by Josh Lanier