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The 2015 Clinton Correctional Facility escape was a jailbreak that took place on June 6, 2015, when two inmates, Richard Matt and David Sweat, were discovered missing during a 5:17 a.m. bed check at the maximum security Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora, New York, United States. Matt was serving 25 years to life and Sweat was serving ...
Feb 6, 2020 · This Nov. 6, 2015 file photo shows Joyce Mitchell, a former prison employee who provided the tools that two murderers used to cut their way out of a maximum-security facility in northern New York ...
- From Prison Supervisor to Groomed Accomplice
- Mitchell Agrees to Aid Escape But Gets Cold Feet
- Mitchell Is Arrested Amid A Massive Manhunt
- Where Is Joyce Mitchell Now?
Mitchell, who sometimes went by the nickname “Tilly” or “Tillie,” was hired by the Clinton Correctional Facility in 2008 as an industrial training supervisor within the prison’s apparel manufacturing division. In 2013, she transitioned to Tailor Shop 1, where she worked until the day of the prison break. Her husband, Lyle, was also employed as a ci...
Sometime around January 2015, Matt and Sweat began devising a plan to escape and approached Mitchell for help. They also discussed a plot to kill her husband. “They introduced the notion to [Mitchell], after developing and cultivating this relationship over many months, that they were considering escaping and would like to take her with them and ma...
Matt and Sweat’s escape led to a massive manhunt through the Adirondacks near the Canadian border, involving more than 1,300 officers from local, state, federal and Canadian law enforcement agencies. “This was very much a multi-agency response and, of course, we started talking with the media right off to get the word out and explain why we had to ...
On February 6, 2020, Mitchell was released from the Bedford Hills Correctional Facility in Westchester County, New York, to community supervision. She’ll remain in oversight until June 2022, at the home she shares with her husband, in Franklin County, near the Canadian border. (Lyle Mitchell visited his wife every other weekendthroughout her senten...
Jun 9, 2015 · The last prison escape in New York state took place in July 2003, when two convicted murderers fled the maximum-security Elmira Correctional Facility, only to be recaptured two days later.
Jun 28, 2015 · After 22 days of searching, investigators finally brought to a close the search for Richard Matt, 48, and David Sweat, 35, the convicted murderers who escaped a New York prison. Matt is dead, and ...
• The last escape from within a medium security secure perimeter was 1992 at Mid-Orange Correctional Facility. Prison Closures • Since 1999, New York's prison population has declined by 54.4 percent, from a high of 72,649 incarcerated individuals to 33,124 (5/1/24). • Since 2011, the State has eliminated more than 13,000 prison beds and ...
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Feb 6, 2020 · Photo: New York State Police Dept. Joyce “Tillie” Mitchell, the 55-year-old corrections worker who helped the two convicted murderers she had became romantically involved with escape prison ...
