Fifteen staff members have been placed on administrative leave pending an investigation into Saturday’s death of New York prison inmate Messiah Nantwi, New York Governor Kathy Hochul said in a release on Tuesday.

Fifteen prison staffers have been placed on leave following the death of a man incarcerated in New York state, Gov. Kathy Hochul announced Tuesday The Democrat said the state department of corrections staffers were taken off the job at her direction as state police have launched a probe into the death of Messiah Nantwi Saturday at

State officials have put 11 prison workers on leave after a 22-year-old inmate at Mid-State Correctional Facility died following an unexplained encounter over the weekend.