New York governor orders firing of 14 prison workers after fatal attack on inmate

Marcy correctional facility in Marcy, New York. Photograph: Will Waldron/Albany Times Union/Getty Images

The New York governor, Kathy Hochul, has directed 14 workers at a state prison to be fired after they were allegedly involved in an attack that resulted in the death of an incarcerated man.

Robert Brooks, 43, died in a local hospital a day after a 9 December incident at the Marcy correctional facility in central New York.