clinton correctional facility escape

A now former civilian employee at the Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora, NY is finding herself on the wrong side of the law.

A former prison guard who pleaded guilty to assisting David Sweat and Richard Matt escape from the Clinton County Correctional Facility in Northern New York is himself a free man again.

The New York State Inspector General’s Office is faulting the Clinton Correctional Facility for “chronic complacency and systematic failures” that allowed two killers to escape.

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — A convicted killer serving life behind bars when he staged a daring escape from a maximum-security prison has pleaded guilty to criminal charges for the breakout.

PLATTSBURGH, N.Y. (AP) — The former New York prison employee who helped two killers escape from a maximum-security prison says she was depressed at the time and the inmates took advantage of what she called her "weakness."