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A New York prison guard accused of failing to intervene as fellow officers beat an inmate to death pleaded guilty to reckless endangerment Friday after jurors deliberating over a more serious ...

A New York prison guard accused of failing to intervene in the beating death of an inmate has pleaded guilty to reckless endangerment UTICA, N.Y. -- A New York prison guard accused of failing to ...

A prosecutor has told a jury that a prison guard should be convicted of manslaughter for failing to intervene in the brutal beating of an inmate by other guards UTICA, N.Y. -- A New York prison guard ...

Judge finds ISIS sympathizer guilty of count to which he had challenged the factual basis when he entered a conditional plea.

UTICA, N.Y. (AP) — A New York prison guard accused of failing to intervene as fellow officers beat an inmate to death pleaded guilty to reckless endangerment Friday after jurors deliberating over a ...

Utica, N.Y. ― A former prison guard from Mid-State Correctional Facility has been sentenced for planting evidence after the ...

“For seven minutes — seven gut-churning, nauseating, disgusting minutes — he stood in that room close enough to touch him and he did nothing,” special prosecutor William Fitzpatrick told jurors during ...