UTICA, N.Y. (WSYR-TV) -- A rally organized by Citizens Action of Central New York, became a place where advocates say they were mourning, filled with outrage, and calling for reform in our nation's correctional facilities. On Saturday, Jan. 11, people gathered in downtown Utica outside of Utica's state office building to demand justice and systematic change for Roberts Brooks, a 35-year-old man, who died on December 10, 2024, after a violent encounter with corrections officers at Marcy Correctional Facility. Court document reveal injuries suffered by Robert Brooks Brooks's family stood at the rally and participated in the picket line in front of the State Office Building. His mother, wearing a shirt and pin with his picture on it demanded change. "When someone comes to prison it doesn't matter what they're in jail for. You are a criminal also, you should go to jail. When I saw that Roberts Brooks video, I felt everything he felt," chanted Michael Pack, a former inmate at the Attica Correctional Facility. Pack also shared that when he was serving time he was beaten too. He claims that they are not the only people who have ever been beaten in a correctional facility. "They continue to treat them as if they are not people and society continues to accept this treatment from them," Lucas Forbees, another formerly incarcerated victim shared his story at the rally. "How you decide to placate to society as if you did not know these things were going on or if there needs to be an investigation. You can clearly see these individuals committed murder on that video, there is no investigation," said Forbees.