
As the months go by, we’ll learn more about the big players in the Dannemora drama. For example, Dateline NBC steps up with accomplice Joyce Mitchell’s side of the story. This was the first time that the public has heard directly from one of the three main characters in the drama (escaped convicts David Sweat, Richard Matt, or confessed accomplice Mitchell) without having the filter of Governor Andrew Cuomo’s political operation and the intertwined New York State bureaucracy imposed upon the information.
by Michael Patrick Leahy21 Sep 2015, 12:23 PM PST0

Lyle Mitchell arrived at King’s Wok Buffet in Malone, New York at 4:15 p.m. on June 5, 2015 with his wife Joyce Mitchell, the 51-year-old civilian employee of the Clinton Correctional Facility, who pled guilty last week to aiding the escape of convicted killers David Sweat and Richard Matt.
by Michael Patrick Leahy2 Aug 2015, 4:44 AM PST0

O’Gorman’s interim tenure was short lived. Late Wednesday, the Department of Corrections and Community Supervision (DOCCS) emailed a statement to Breitbart News that Michael Kirkpatrick has been named the new permanent superintendent at Clinton Correctional Facility.
by Michael Patrick Leahy1 Jul 2015, 12:58 PM PST0

One source familiar with the investigation into the escape of the two convicts from Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora, New York tells Breitbart News “they are investigating a drug trade inside the prison that is being operated by the prisoners and the correctional officers.” Another source familiar with the investigation tells Breitbart News the arrests of Joyce Mitchell and Gene Palmer are just “the tip of the iceberg.”
by Michael Patrick Leahy29 Jun 2015, 1:36 PM PST0

Cook, a 21-year law enforcement veteran, was on patrol by himself Sunday about 3 pm eastern about 5 miles north of the 22-square mile search area where as many as 1,000 fellow officers were looking for Sweat, when he spotted a man dressed in camouflage clothing jogging on Coveytown Road in the Town of Constable, just 2 miles north of the Village of Malone, New York.
by Michael Patrick Leahy29 Jun 2015, 5:32 AM PST0

According to tweets from Press-Republican editor Lois Clermont, Sweat has been taken to a local hospital and is in stable condition.
by Michael Patrick Leahy28 Jun 2015, 1:37 PM PST0

“DNA was from convicted murderer Richard Matt, sources tell Press-Republican,” Press-Republican editor Lois Clermont tweeted at 11:15 am eastern time.
by Michael Patrick Leahy26 Jun 2015, 8:51 AM PST0

Palmer is the second employee of the Clinton Correctional Facility to be arrested.
by Michael Patrick Leahy24 Jun 2015, 6:18 PM PST0

On Tuesday, the editor and reporters from the Press-Republican provided real time updates on Twitter about the search for the two killers who escaped from the Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora, New York on the evening of June 5.
by Michael Patrick Leahy23 Jun 2015, 6:33 AM PST0

Items found in a burglarized hunting camp 25 miles west of the Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora, New York have been tested and contain the DNA of two killers who escaped on June 5, news reports say.
by Michael Patrick Leahy22 Jun 2015, 11:16 AM PST0

Like groundhogs scared by their shadows on Groundhog Day, however, sources tell Breitbart News that the two convicts did not emerge from the steam pipes at that location at the intersection of Cook St., the main street in town, and Barker St., presumably because it was so close to the prison walls and might leave them exposed to capture.
by Michael Patrick Leahy21 Jun 2015, 5:01 AM PST0

State authorities “are trying to deflect the bad management of the escape by Governor Andrew Cuomo and the general total screw up they created,” a retired officer tells Breitbart News.
by Michael Patrick Leahy19 Jun 2015, 8:19 PM PST0

“What the ‘observant viewer’ saw was not a rope being sent down by an inmate. It was a rope lowered by a tower officer to get some dinner after 16 hours up there,” one retired correctional officer tells Breitbart News.
by Michael Patrick Leahy17 Jun 2015, 5:53 AM PST0

“Governor Cuomo’s anti-prison budget cuts created the opportunity for those two convicts to escape from Dannemora,” a retired correctional officer who worked at the Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora, New York for three decades tells Breitbart News. Late Friday night/early
by Michael Patrick Leahy9 Jun 2015, 7:34 AM PST0