The murder of Robert Brooks by officials at Marcy Correctional Center is indeed horrific and appalling. For those of us who work with people ensnared in the criminal legal system of New York, however, it is anything but “shocking.”

via @NYTimesnytimes.com/2024/12/23/nyr… Violence against incarcerated people in New York at the hands of corrections officials is regrettably all too common. It is therefore not helpful—indeed it is harmful—for leaders to come out during moments like these and emphasize how anomalous these incidents are. They are not.