Following the release of bodycam footage showing officers beating a handcuffed inmate, Robert Brooks, who later died, Governor Kathy Hochul announced a new superintendent for Marcy Correctional Facility.
A New York prison where a handcuffed man died after officers beat him earlier this month will get a new superintendent, Gov. Kathy Hochul announced Monday after visiting the facility. Body camera video had been released days earlier showing prison guards pummeling Robert Brooks as he sat handcuffed on a medical examination table at Marcy Correctional Facility on Dec. 9. He was pronounced dead the following morning.
The governor has already moved to terminate 13 correctional officers and a nurse implicated in the attack on the incarcerated man. State Attorney General Letitia James is investigating the officers’ use of force. The FBI and U.S. Department of Justice are also reviewing the death but declined to comment further, the FBI said in a statement. Hochul traveled to the facility in central New York on Monday to meet with corrections department leadership and people incarcerated at the prison. “The system failed Mr. Brooks and I will not be satisfied until there has been significant culture change,” she said in a statement. She said Shawangunk Correctional Facility Superintendent Bennie Thorpe would be named the new superintendent of Marcy Correctional Facility. Thorpe has more than two decades of experience in corrections but has never served at Marcy, “giving him expertise and a fresh perspective on what must be done,” Hochul’s office said in the statement. In addition, the governor said she would add staffers to the state corrections department’s special investigation office to handle complaints and direct the agency to hire an outside firm to review the culture, patterns and practices throughout the entire correctional syste
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