Robert Brooks and the State of New York's Prisons

What’s happening inside NY’s prisons? In December corrections officers beat Robert Brooks until he died in Marcy Correctional Facility where he was imprisoned. Just days ago another inmate, Messiah Nantwi, was allegedly also beaten to death at Midstate Facility. Prison guards across the state have striking since February 17 in violation of the Taylor Law.On Thursday, March 6 WRFI’s Michael Rhynes and Felix Teitelbaum spoke with Phoebe Brown of the Alliance of Families for Justice and Donald Curtis of the Unified Black Caucus about criminal justice in New York and about a town hall meeting the two groups are organizing at Southside Community Center in Ithaca on SATURDAY, MARCH 15 from 2:30 - 6:00 PM.