Advocacy
Advancing Fairness and Accountability in the Criminal Justice System
On December 9th, 2024, Correction Officers at the Marcy Correctional facility brutally beat Robert Brooks to death. Surveillance footage captured the unprovoked attack, exposing not just the officers’ unchecked violence, but the system that enables it. On March 1, 2025, corrections staff at New York's Mid-State Correctional facility beat another prisoner, Messiah Nantwi, to death. Indictments have been handed down for murder, manslaughter and other crimes in both cases.
The records of the New York State Attorney General's office–which defends the Department of Corrections and Community Supervision in civil cases–demonstrate that this wasn’t an isolated incident. This is routine. This is state-sanctioned murder. We refuse to let this atrocity be ignored. We demand accountability. We demand justice. We demand immediate legislative action to address the inhumane conditions in our state prisons. The system cannot police itself—real change starts now!
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2025 Policy
The Robert Brooks Agenda for Justice
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2026 Policy
End Prison Violence 2026 Agenda
Together we can create a more just and humane system for those who are currently incarcerated while bringing transparency and accountability to a system meant to rehabilitate.
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Together, we can move beyond reaction—and toward a future where prisons are no longer places of violence, but spaces of accountability, safety, and human dignity.