NY prison worker arrested over murderers’ escape
Forces of the New York State Police have arrested a prison worker for helping two convicted murderers escape.
On Friday, Joyce Mitchell, working for Clinton Correctional Facility, was detained and charged over "providing material assistance" to David Sweat and Richard Matt.
"Mitchell was charged with Promoting Prison Contraband 1st Degree, a class D Felony, and Criminal Facilitation 4th Degree, a class A misdemeanor," police said.
Earlier in the day, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said at a press conference that a female prison worker had been interviewed in regard to the prison break.
Matt, 48, and Sweat, 34, who are still at large, are dangerous and should not be approached, according New York state police.
At Cuomo’s news conference, officials said the runaways might have headed to a camp in Vermont.
On June 6, Matt and Sweat were unaccounted for during bed check at the Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora, about 20 miles (32 km) south of the Canadian border.
Sweat was serving a life sentence without parole after he was convicted of first-degree murder for killing a sheriff's deputy in 2002, while Matt was serving a sentence of 25 years to life for kidnapping a man and beating him to death in 1997.
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