*PRISON ESCAPE* Dannemora, NY (Clinton) - 6/6/26

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Date: 6/6/25
Time: 0530
Location: Clinton Correction Facility, Dannemora, NY
District: NYSP Troop B
Units: NYSP, NYS DOC, multiple other agencies

Description:

2 convicts came up unaccounted for during a count at 0530 this morning. One escapee is convicted for murdering a Broome County, NY Sheriff's Deputy. The second is convicted for 3 counts of murder and kidnapping.

Official NYSP Statement from Facebook:

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On June 6, at 5:45 a.m. the New York State Police received a call from the Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora regarding two prisoners that were unaccounted for during a 5:30 a.m. bed check. The State Police are now currently searching for the two escaped prisoners.

Richard Matt, 48 years old, a white male, 6’ tall, 210 pounds, with black hair and hazel eyes. He has tattoos on back “Mexico Forever”, a heart on his chest and left shoulder, and a marine corps insignia on his right shoulder.

David Sweat, 34 years old, white male, 5’11” tall, 165 pounds, brown hair and green eyes. He has tattoos on his left bicep and his right fingers.

Both are considered to be a danger to the public. If located DO NOT approach them. Contact 911 or the New York State Police immediately at (518) 563-3761.

Sweat is serving a sentence of life without parole following his conviction in Broome County for one count of Murder 1st Degree after he caused the death of a Broome County Sheriff’s Deputy on July 4, 2002. Sweat was transferred to Clinton Correctional on October 30, 2003.

Matt is serving a sentence of 25 years to life following his conviction in Niagara County for three counts of murder, three counts of kidnapping, and two counts of robbery after he kidnapped a male victim and caused his death by beating him on December 3, 1997. Matt was transferred to Clinton Correctional on July 10, 2008.

Anyone in the Dannemora area should contact the New York State Police if they saw or heard anything early this morning, or find that they have a vehicle which is unaccounted for.

WABC: Inmates Escape from Maximum-Security Prison in New York

Edited June 6, 2015 by SageVigiles

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Lots of people with NYDOCCS across their backs. Like the public is supposed to know what that means. What's wrong with just plain POLICE. Agencies and their acronyms.

So it's nice they found the woman who assisted in the escape. How about all the guards and supervisors asleep at the switch while power tools cut through the building? How long

before we actually see some accountability. Wonder when that will be. I just hope they are found before they become desperate and resort to what the know best, killing.

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SECTMB wrote:

"Lots of people with NYDOCCS across their backs. Like the public is supposed to know what that means. What's wrong with just plain POLICE. Agencies and their acronyms."

I see your point about confusion, but the reason why just plain "Police" should not be used is that Corrections Officers are not Police.
The term Police should only be used with Police.

They can put "Corrections" across their backs if they want.

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Lots of people with NYDOCCS across their backs. Like the public is supposed to know what that means. What's wrong with just plain POLICE. Agencies and their acronyms.

So it's nice they found the woman who assisted in the escape. How about all the guards and supervisors asleep at the switch while power tools cut through the building? How long

before we actually see some accountability. Wonder when that will be. I just hope they are found before they become desperate and resort to what the know best, killing.

To be fair she is a DOC employee, just not a CO. I don't think we've seen the last head roll over this one.

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Well, to be fair, the "kinder and gentler" society we live in has made it more difficult to adequately guard inmates today. Used to be that you kept lights on so you could see them 24/7 but they deemed that unfair so now they turn lights out at night. Guards used to come by and check on the inmates with flashlights but that doesn't let them sleep and is also unfair. Hence you have this ridiculous environment where this can go on.

Now I'm not saying there isn't blame at Dannemora! But there is also plenty of blame outside the walls!

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Cuomo created a 'total cluster f-k' in hunt for escaped killers"

New York Post

By Fredric U. Dicker

June 14, 2015

The massive manhunt for two escaped murderers from the Dannemora prison has been hampered by State Police secrecy, inter-agency rivalries, and the disrupting involvement of Gov. Cuomo on the first day of the breakout, law-enforcement sources have told The Post.

Cuomo’s surprise arrival at a still-unfolding escape scene a week ago Saturday generated considerable national publicity for the governor, but distracted investigators at a time when the full facts of the escape were not yet known, the sources said.

“Cuomo actually disrupted the early search efforts when he arrived at the ‘command center’ on Saturday and refused to enter the room until everyone was removed except state employees,’’ said a longtime law-enforcement figure who has regular contact with many involved in the search effort.

“Cuomo’s aides came in and threw out the US marshal, the sheriff [David Favro, like Cuomo a Democrat] and others who were there to help coordinate the search effort.

“And they did it without even saying ‘Thanks for your help,’ or such, just, ‘Get out so his highness can enter.’

Why am I not surprised... What a skell.

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To be fair she is a DOC employee, just not a CO. I don't think we've seen the last head roll over this one.

I believe there are more involved than just her. This was a well thought out plan that had to involve people who had access to the tools. Civilian movement is limited ( at least where I used to work) so it is unlikey she had access to a shop or room where the tools are stored without help. They have to establish a chain of events as to what hands were the tools passed through untill they got into the hands of the inmates. Somehow they knew the layout of the pipe chases behind the cells, the direction of the pipes, and where the manhole cover was. It could take time before they truly know how this was done and who helped.

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Photos from the search

http://www.lohud.com/picture-gallery/news/local/2015/06/14/manhunt-continues-upstate-for-escaped-prisoners/71230528/

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Weird Science was on the other night, the one with Kelly LeBrock and Anthony Michael Hall. Doesn't that first escaped inmate look just like the 'thing' Kelly LeBrock turned the older bully brother into?

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What also is troubling to me as a retired correction officer is that the media refers to the officers who work in the prison as guards. They are correction officers and are trained law enforcement professionals who do a tough job dealing with the killers, rapists, thieves, and drug dealers on a daily basis. Most people could not do this job I have seen many quit not too long after the got into the facility. Guards don't get spit on, assaulted, threatened, etc.

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What also is troubling to me as a retired correction officer is that the media refers to the officers who work in the prison as guards. They are correction officers and are trained law enforcement professionals who do a tough job dealing with the killers, rapists, thieves, and drug dealers on a daily basis. Most people could not do this job I have seen many quit not too long after the got into the facility. Guards don't get spit on, assaulted, threatened, etc.

While they may have changed the title over the years, as they have with so many other professions, I believe the public will always equate the two titles. I don't think most people, certainly anyone who has every watched a prison documentary, believes it is other than a very difficult and thankless job.

I really don't think there is anything wrong with being referred to as a guard. You are tasked with guarding the public from societies miscreants.

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these two pieces of garbage should have never saw the day of light to begin with let alone get three squares a day a roof over their head and time for pt. 1 guy kills a sheriff's deputy and another guy kidnaps his boss tortures him for two days and then kills him. if you're not going to bring the death penalty to people like this lock them up and throw away the key.

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I know this is a little off topic, but while I was driving home from the Dannemora Search Detail on Wednesday, I passed an engine that was traveling northbound on the Thruway near Albany. Clear as day, it was Miami-Dade Engine 3. Any idea what it would be doing that far away?

[SageVigiles 1,194]

I know this is a little off topic, but while I was driving home from the Dannemora Search Detail on Wednesday, I past an engine that was traveling northbound on the Thruway near Albany. Clear as day, it was Miami-Dade Engine 3. Any idea what it would be doing that far away?

It was in NYC for awhile for some event. I think its going on a demo tour before its delivered.

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Both convicts have been added to the US Marshals Service 15 Most Wanted List.

http://www.usmarshals.gov/investigations/most_wanted/

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So much for the "No Corrections Officers were involved" theory...

Officer Arrested in Prison Escape Is Accused of Exchanging Tools for Paintings

The New York Times

By SUSANNE CRAIG, WILLIAM K. RASHBAUM and BENJAMIN MUELLER

JUNE 25, 2015

PLATTSBURGH, N.Y. — A corrections officer was charged on Wednesday with bringing a screwdriver and pliers into the Clinton Correctional Facility in exchange for nearly a dozen paintings given to him by one of the convicted killers who escaped from the maximum-security prison in northern New York.

The arrest of the officer, Gene Palmer, marks a dramatic widening of the investigation into the breakout, suggesting that the escape was facilitated by multiple prison workers and that serious lapses at the prison made it possible.

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One down, one to go. Units still in the field looking for the cop killing POS. Happy hunting boys and girls.

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UPDATE June 28,2015:Manhunt is Over;David Sweat was shot and wounded by a NY State Trooper. He is in police custody at this time.

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That's all folks. Well done by all the agencies involved.