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The former prison tailor serving time for helping two killers escape from an upstate New York correctional facility will soon walk free.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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."

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.