New leader installed at US prison where Black inmate beaten to death
NEW YORK -- New York Governor Kathy Hochul has installed a new top leader at the upstate prison where 14 corrections workers have been implicated in a fatal attack on an inmate that was captured on video.
After a visit to the prison, the Marcy Correctional Facility, Hochul said on Monday she had directed the state's corrections commissioner to immediately replace the acting superintendent with a permanent superintendent from another New York prison.
The governor's order came three days after footage of the deadly beating of the Black man, Robert L. Brooks, was made public by the state attorney general's office as part of an investigation that could lead to criminal charges, The New York Times reported Wednesday.
In releasing the footage on Friday, Letitia James, the attorney general, described the behavior it showed as "shocking and disturbing." Hochul sounded a similar tone in a statement issued after she visited the prison.
