New York (CNN) Thirteen prison staffers at a Pennsylvania prison were suspended without pay on Friday following the death of a 29-year-old inmate, spokeswoman Susan McNaughton of the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections told CNN. A department press release said that the medical and security staffers are suspended pending the outcome of any criminal and administrative investigations. Tyrone Briggs, 29, was involved in an altercation with a fellow inmate on November 11 near their housing unit in State Correctional Institution Mahanoy. He was pronounced dead less than two hours later, according to a corrections department press releaseAll inmate deaths are investigated by the Pennsylvania State Police, McNaughton said. Several hundred employees work at each state prison, but McNaughton declined to comment on why specifically 13 of the workers at Mahanoy have been suspended.

Source: CNN November 17, 2019 01:17 UTC