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Former state prison guard found guilty in beating death of inmate

UTICA — A former New York state prison guard was found guilty of murder Monday in the death of an inmate who was beaten while handcuffed, while two other guards were acquitted for their roles in the attack that was caught on body-camera footage. A jury delivered the verdicts in a ...

News outlets won’t sign new Pentagon rules

News organizations including The New York Times, The Associated Press and the conservative Newsmax television network said Monday they will not sign a Defense Department document about its new press rules, making it likely the Trump administration will evict their reporters from the ...

ICE detainees in New York jails can’t talk to their lawyers

While Ramon Eduardo Contreras-Hernandez was detained at the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center in Batavia earlier this year, he regularly saw attorneys visiting their clients, giving him some sense of connection to the outside world. At the Broome County jail, where he ...