clinton correctional facility

One could argue that a bad review is actually a good review... if it deters someone from getting locked up.

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

A state board has denied parole to a tailor who played a key role in a prison break

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.

David Sweat, one of two men who escaped from a maximum-security prison in Northern New York last June, was sentenced to additional jail time today.

The woman who helped two convicted killers escape from a northern New York prison will spend at least two years behind bars.

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — A former New York prison worker who helped two murderers escape from a maximum-security lockup says she played along when they talked about their plan and never intended to pick them up.

David Sweat has been arraigned on three felony counts in connection with his escape from a maximum-security state prison. The 35-year-old Sweat made a brief appearance August 20 in Clinton County Court. Sweat did not enter a plea to two counts of escape and one count of promoting prison contraband...

PLATTSBURGH, N.Y. (AP) — A New York prison employee has pleaded guilty to helping two killers escape last month.

PLATTSBURGH, N.Y. (AP) — Two killers on the loose from a New York prison for three weeks disagreed over whether to hole up in hunting cabin, with one worried about being captured and the other suggesting they could kill or take hostage anyone who checked in on the remote camp.