More than a dozen employees at a Pennsylvania state prison have been suspended following the death of an inmate earlier this month.
Tyrone Briggs died following an inmate-on-inmate assault at the Pennsylvania State Correctional Institution at Mahanoy.Briggs died at the State Correctional Institution at Mahanoy in Frackville, Pennsylvania, on Nov. 11, according to an earlierHe had become unresponsive while waiting to be processed into the prison's restricted housing unit after getting into an altercation with another inmate.
Among those suspended are medical and security staff. The names of the suspended employees have not been released. "Whatever the outcome of this case, we are going to be as transparent as possible, and the DOC will take whatever remedial measures deemed to be necessary," Wetzel said in the Saturday press release.
Briggs was committed to the Department of Corrections in 2008 and had been at the prison since Aug. 2011. He was serving a 15-to-30 year sentence for rape of a child.
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