Monday, September 28, 2015

New York Prison worker sentenced to seven years for helping inmate lovers escape

Joyce Mitchell, 51, tearfully apologized to the community, her former colleagues and law enforcement on Monday morning, insisting: 

'If I could take it all back, I would. I never intended forany of this to happen.'

It marks the climax of one of New York's worst prison breaks in history.

Mitchell pleaded guilty last month to providing hacksaw blades and other tools to Richard Matt and David Sweat, who broke out of the maximum-security Clinton Correctional Facility on June 6.

The pair eluded more than 1,000 searchers who combed the thick woods and bogs of northern New York for much of the next three weeks.Matt was killed by a border agent June 26. 

Sweat was wounded and captured by a state trooper two days later.Mitchell admitted to becoming close with the pair and agreed to be their getaway driver before backing out at the last moment.

source: dailymailuk

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