
On October 8, Mexico’s Attorney General’s Office announced that the pilot who helped notorious drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzmán escape from a high-security prison had been captured. This was the first time any mention had been made of a pilot being involved in the plot, and authorities did not say if the arrest was bringing them any closer to discovering Guzmán’s whereabouts.
by Sylvia Longmire10 Oct 2015, 6:51 AM PST0

With Mexican drug kingpin Joaquín Guzmán Loera’s second major escape from a maximum security prison in Mexico, his fans are growing in number. The drug lord known as “El Chapo” is becoming something of a folk hero in Sinaloa, Mexico, the killer’s hometown.
by Warner Todd Huston17 Jul 2015, 9:31 PM PST0

Donald Trump has weighed in on the audacious prison escape of one of Mexico’s most notorious drug lords, claiming it as proof of the country’s ‘corruption’.
by Breitbart News12 Jul 2015, 8:07 PM PST0

Mexican authorities have undertaken a desperate manhunt for former Sinaloa drug cartel boss Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzmán after he escaped from the Altiplano maximum security prison near Mexico City. It was the second time Guzmán escaped from prison; the first was in 2001.
by Joel B. Pollak12 Jul 2015, 5:31 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

Richard Matt was shot dead at approximately 4 pm eastern today near the intersection of Highways 30 and 41, 7 miles south of the village of Malone, New York just north of Lake Titus. Elephant’s Head, where the search for
by Michael Patrick Leahy26 Jun 2015, 2:19 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

Despite calling Palmer’s delivery of the tool-embedded frozen meat to the convicts a mistake that broke the rules, all the correction officers with whom Breitbart News spoke continue to maintain that Palmer is being scapegoated for being manipulated by the convicts and Joyce Mitchell to provide the first tools needed to enable the escape.
by Michael Patrick Leahy24 Jun 2015, 12:21 PM PST0

The New York correctional worker who has been charged with helping two convicted murderers escape from a maximum-security prison may be headed to television.
by Kipp Jones19 Jun 2015, 10:18 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