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 ...

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 ...

DANNEMORA, N.Y. (WABC) -- Hundreds of searchers spurred on by fresh evidence methodically combed through heavy woods in far northern New York on Tuesday hoping to finally close in on two elusive ...

DANNEMORA, N.Y. -- Two civilians who encountered escaped murders Richard Matt and David Sweat said they are "lucky to be alive now" after seeing the convicts on the night they escaped. The friends, ...

— -- New York State corrections officials instituted a set of stricter regulations in the wake of the historic escape of two inmates from a maximum security prison, including eliminating the ...

On June 6, 2015, convicted killers David Sweat and Richard Matt escaped from the Clinton County Correctional Facility, setting off a more than three-week-long manhunt that involved hundreds of law ...

David Sweat and Richard Matt's escape from the maximum-security Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora, New York baffled law enforcement and state officials in June 2015. The escape inspired the ...

Convicted killer David Sweat was sentenced to more prison time and $80,000 restitution for the prison escape last summer where he and partner Richard Matt eluded an army of searchers for three weeks ...