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13 Pennsylvania correctional employees suspended after inmate dies following fight – Fox News, Fox News

13 Pennsylvania correctional employees suspended after inmate dies following fight – Fox News, Fox News


More than a dozen employees withPennsylvania’s Department of Correctionshave been suspended after an inmate died during afight with another inmatelast week, officials said.

Tyrone Briggs, 29, died Nov. 11 after a brawl ensued between him and another inmate near the housing unit at the State Correctional Institution at Mahanoyin Frackville.

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As Briggs was “waiting to be processed into the restricted housing unit,” he became unresponsive, the department said in anews release. Briggs waspronounced deadless than two hours later.

Tyrone Briggs, 29, died on Nov. 11 following an altercation with another inmate. The Pennsylvania Department of Corrections suspended 13 employees in the wake of his death.

      Tyrone Briggs, 29, died on Nov. 11 following an altercation with another inmate. The Pennsylvania Department of Corrections suspended 13 employees in the wake of his death.       (Pennsylvania Department of Corrections)

Following an investigation into Briggs’ death, John Wetzel , corrections secretary, suspended 13 medical and security employees without pay “pending the outcome of any criminal and administrative investigations.”

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“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 , noting what happened at the Mahanoy facility “should not tarnish” other correctional employees.

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Briggs was serving a 15 – to 30 – year sentence forraping an 11 – year-old girlin 2006. He was committed to the corrections department in 2008 and had been held at Mahanoy, a medium-level security male prison, since August 2011.

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