Clinton Correctional Facility

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Mugshots of David Sweat (left) and Richard Matt

(New York State Police)

Karen:

The 2015 Clinton Correctional prison escape

Episode sources:

1. “Dannemora” by Charles A. Gardner

2. “Investigation of the June 5, 2015 Escape of Inmates David Sweat and Richard Matt from Clinton Correctional Facility” (State of New York Office of the Inspector General) 2015

3. “Broken Boys, Thieves, Killers, and Now Escapees” by N.R. Kleinfield (New York Times) 2015

4. “Prison Worker Who Befriended Killers Is Accused of Providing Tools for Escape” by Jesse McKinley, Sarah Maslin Nir, and William K. Rashbaum (New York Times) 2015

5. “Joyce Mitchell released from prison 5 years after helping convicted killers escape” by Karma Allen and Emily Shapiro (ABC News) 2020

6. “Joyce Mitchell: 'I wish I would have done the right thing'” by Mike Goodwin (Times Union) 2019

7. “How Two Prisoners Escaped From A Maximum Security Prison” (New York Times) 2015

8. “The Strangest Details From That Report on the Dannemora Prison Escape” by Jen Kirby (New York Magazine) 2016

9. “Joyce Mitchell, who aided prison break, going to prison herself” by Mark Morgenstein (CNN) 2015

10. “NY Prison Escape: Men Hid in Remote Hunting Shack, Police Say” (ABC News) 2015

11. “Escaped Prisoners: How Police Caught Richard Matt and David Sweat” (ABC News) 2015

12. “Escaped murderer is shot, captured after accomplice is killed” (CBS/Associated Press) 2015

13. “Squabbling, Hesitation and Luck Had Roles in Manhunt for New York Prison Escapees” by Benjamin Mueller (The New York Times) 2015

14. “Searchers comb through woods after escaped killers' DNA found in cabin” by Gio Benitez (ABC7) 2015

15. “Upstate Prison Worker Joyce Mitchell Pleads Guilty To Helping Killers Escape” (CBS New York/Associated Press) 2015

16. “Joyce Mitchell to pay $80,000 in restitution” by Lee Anne Denyer (My NBC 5) 2015

17. “Joyce Mitchell released from prison 5 years after helping convicted killers escape” by Karma Allen and Emily Shapiro (ABC News) 2020

18. “2015 Clinton Correctional Facility escape” (Wikipedia)

19. “SHOWTIME’S ‘ESCAPE AT DANNEMORA’ LEFT OUT TORTURE AND ABUSE”  by Katie Rose Quandt (The Appeal) 2019

20. “New York prison escapee to spend 23 hours a day in maximum security cell” (Associated Press) 2015

21. “Manhunt ends for escaped NY killers” by Radhika Chalasani (CBS News) 2015

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