Eleven corrections workers were placed on leave after a 22-year-old inmate at Mid-State Correctional Facility died. Inmates said he was viciously beaten by prison guards.
Eleven corrections workers were placed on leave after a 22-year-old inmate at Mid-State Correctional Facility died. Inmates said he was viciously beaten by prison guards.
Eleven corrections workers were placed on leave after a 22-year-old inmate at Mid-State Correctional Facility died. Inmates said he was viciously beaten by prison guards.
The State Police are investigating the death of a prisoner over the weekend in a facility near the central New York prison where another inmate was fatally beaten by guards in December.
Prison officials said on Saturday that an inmate at Mid-State Correctional Facility, a medium-security prison in Marcy, N.Y., near Utica, was pronounced dead at a nearby hospital earlier in the day. Officials released no additional details about the circumstances surrounding his death, but nine prisoners interviewed by The New York Times on Sunday, seven of whom agreed to have their names used, said the inmate had been brutally beaten by corrections officers.
Their accounts could not be independently confirmed, and Thomas Mailey, a prisons spokesman, said the death was under investigation.
Eleven corrections staff members involved in the incident were placed on administrative leave while the investigation proceeds, Mr. Mailey said.
A spokeswoman for the New York attorney general, Letitia James, said her office was conducting a preliminary assessment of the death. Deaths that appear to be from other than natural causes or a known medical condition are investigated by the Office of the Attorney General, the New York State Police and the state corrections department’s Office of Special Investigations, Mr. Mailey said.
A spokesman for Gov. Kathy Hochul did not respond to requests for comment on Sunday, and a spokesman for the corrections officers’ union said he had no information about the death.