Jun. 7—DANNEMORA — From the beginning, the escape from Clinton Correctional Facility by David Sweat and Richard Matt has been described "like something out of a movie." The story was ripe for ...

They were serving sentences for murder when Richard Matt and David Sweat mounted a sophisticated plan to escape from Clinton Correctional Facility in upstate New York, launching a three-week manhunt ...

ALBANY, N.Y. -- The former prison tailor who helped two killers escape a maximum-security New York prison was released Thursday after more than four years behind bars. Joyce Mitchell, 55, was released ...

UPDATE: Joyce Mitchell, the 55-year-old prison tailor who was a key to helping two convicted killers break out of a maximum-security New York prison, has been paroled. The incident served as the ...

48-year-old Richard Matt & 34-year-old David Sweat escape from Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora. Authorities say the pair apparently used power tools to drill their way through cells and ...

A decade after he broke out of Clinton state prison in the infamous “Escape at Dannemora” and led cops on a 23-day manhunt that riveted the nation, convicted killer David Sweat, in an exclusive ...

It’s been 10 years since the notorious Dannemora prison break that thrust the North Country into the national spotlight. Most of the world doesn’t know the small town of Dannemora, New York, home to ...

There’s been no redemption for the Shawskank. New photos show Joyce Mitchell living a bleak, reclusive life in upstate New York nearly 10 years to the day after she helped her alleged lovers — ...

Ten years ago Friday, the North Country woke up to the news that two dangerous criminals had escaped from one of the state’s maximum security prisons. The towering white walls of Clinton Correctional ...