From SassyEuro's link & article back up ^^^





Ignorance and Liability = pure moron behavior by this prison warden!
To much error of judgment and lazy arsed protocol within this prison system! Start at the top and systematic 'YOUR FIRED' and heads should roll. IMHO

DAY -18 -CNN

http://www.cnn.com/2015/06/25/us/new-york-prison-break-contraband-smuggle/index.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+rss%2Fedition_us+%28RSS%3A+CNNi+-+U.S.%29/

DRUGS, MONEY, LOVE, CELLPHONES, HOW PRISON GUARDS GO BAD

Story highlights


Cell phones considered dangerous contraband used for conducting criminal business
A former New York guard was corrupted, he says, because he needed money

(CNN) When Gary Heyward went through training to become a prison guard, his instructor warned him there would be temptations behind those walls.

"He said, 'Look to your left. Now look to your right. One of you is going to smuggle something in, some inmate is going to talk you into doing bad,'" Heyward recalled. "I thought, 'Oh, no, not me.' But, you know, you never think it's going to be you."

Heyward became a corrections officer at New York's Rikers Island in 1996. The former Marine's goal was to start paying down debts, his bills and backed-up child support payments. It was a struggle, he said, on $28,000 a year.

So when an inmate approached him offering $300 for one pack of cigarettes, a high price but one set by a black market created in the prison when the state banned smoking, Heyward went for it, and made the trade.

He rationalized it this way: A lot of the guards carried cigarettes for themselves so it wouldn't be hard to pull off and it's not like cigarettes were illegal drugs. So he did it again, and again. His bills got smaller, and Heyward's reputation as the go-to guard became bigger. "I guess that turned into greed," he said.

One inmate offered $1,500 for a half ounce of cocaine. Soon Heyward was smuggling in coke regularly, he said, as well as cell phones and other contraband.

Caught after an inmate turned him in and he was caught on video, Heyward spent two years in prison.

On a legal pad behind bars he wrote the self-published memoir, "Corruption Officer: From Jail Guard to Perpetrator Inside Rikers Island."

"A lot of people will look at what's going on in New York -- that Joyce lady -- and wonder why," Heyward said. "People do what they do for different reasons. It's just people being human, letting that thing that's most weak in them get the better of them."

Joyce Mitchell, a 51-year-old worker at a New York prison, has been accused of smuggling tools into the facility that helped two murderers escape in early June.

She has told investigators that one of the inmates made her feel "special."

Hacksaw blades smuggled in meat
Sometimes an officer has poor self-esteem and taking a risk makes them feel powerful, or an inmate gives them adoration they crave. Sometimes they get off on the thrill of taking a risk. Overwhelmingly, corruption is borne out of a desire for money, correction officials agree. But it happens, and as long as humans staff prisons, there's no way to completely prevent it.

Mitchell worked in the tailor shop at Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora, New York, where authorities say she met inmates David Sweat and Richard Matt.

Heyward recalled that when he first arrived at Rikers, he thought, How would anyone ever get out of here?

"But after awhile it doesn't seem so hard. You see the weak spots," he said. "You see where your opportunities are."

He strapped contraband to his body under his uniform. When the metal detector went off, no one would search him, he said.

A prosecutor said Mitchell put hacksaw blades and drill bits into a hunk of hamburger meat and brought that into the prison; another guard unwittingly placed it in an area where the inmates would be.

Former inmate Erik Jensen appeared on CNN Wednesday describing a flirty relationship that blossomed between Mitchell and one of the inmates.

"It would be (like) when the cute guy at the high school asks the girl to prom and the look on her face every day when they would get together," Jensen said. "They would laugh, giggle -- conversations all day long."

Mitchell has told investigators Matt made her feel special, though she didn't say she was in love with him, a source familiar with the investigation told CNN.

She could go to prison for eight years if convicted.

Prisons enemy No. 1? Cell phones
Drugs, weapons, liquor, cigarettes. They are typical contraband. But by far the most dangerous and most desired object is a smartphone, said Jon Ozmint, the former director of the South Carolina Department of Corrections.

Cell phones are routinely stuffed into footballs, bags, volleyballs and thrown over prison walls in the middle of the night. In one instance in 2012, Georgia corrections officials found a dead cat stuffed with cell phones near a prison fence.

"You can't have people policing every parameter of a prison at all times," Ozmint said. "There's usually one person out there and they aren't looking for a football."

Phones allow a prisoner to convey to someone on the outside when and where to toss the contraband, so an inmate during recreation time or just walking across a yard can pick it up. Cell phones have lately been used to tell an outsider when and where to fly a drone over a prison to drop goods.

Prisoners can use social media to keep up their reputation on the outside. Some South Carolina inmates recently posted a rap video from behind bars. Ozmint has seen inmates and gang leaders run their criminal operations on the outside using a phone.

It can be a lucrative endeavor for guards, too. One officer made $150,000 in one year smuggling cell phones to inmates, the Los Angeles Times reported.

Cell phones also can be used to kill. A prisoner ordered a hit on a guard known for cracking down on prisoners' possession of phones in South Carolina, said Ozmint. The guard was shot numerous times but survived.

Ozmint and others have argued that the Federal Communications Commission should allow correctional facilities to jam cell phone signals.

The FCC has said jamming signals to jails and prisons would interfere with surrounding signals.

"Cell phone jamming technology is illegal and causes more problems than it solves," the commission said. "Under current law, the use of technologies that block mobile calls are illegal" and could "interfere with 911 calls and public safety communication."

Nets, body scanners, dogs
Prisons have taken some measures to try to curb the flow of contraband.

Since taking over four Mississippi correctional facilities in 2012 and 2013, Management & Training Corporation has installed 30-foot netting over fences and installed body scanners at entrances, according to the Mississippi Clarion-Ledger newspaper.

They are also using German shepherds to sniff out illegal items in unannounced inspections, the newspaper reported.

Other facilities across the country that didn't have metal detectors have installed them.

In South Carolina, an X-ray machine at the entrance of a facility detected something odd in a saline bag that was passing through on its way to a medical area. Two girlfriends of inmates, working with three inmates, were part of an elaborate scheme to fill saline bags with cell phones and drugs.

They are facing charges. Court documents show their cases are still pending.

But all the technology imaginable isn't going to be as effective at fighting contraband as good, disciplined employees, experts stress.

The best defense is a good offense when it comes to tamping down on contraband, said Joe Giacalone, a retired New York Police detective who has worked closely with prison officials.

"I look at the policies, procedures and the people and see where there was a breakdown," he said. "In New York, if you had effective checks of the facility, maybe they would have found that huge hole those guys who escaped made."

Problems that lead to an elaborate escape like the one in New York are likely to reveal problems throughout a system, Giacalone said.

It's all about the money
He and Ozmint agree that more effective prisons come down to how much a state or a private company wants to invest in running them.

Pay for workers is critical, they argue.

Consider that in March, Mississippi corrections officials found weapons, cell phones and more than 160 "shanks," or homemade knives, at five public and private prisons, the Clarion-Ledger reported. Some staff were "complicit in bringing in the contraband," Corrections Commissioner Marshall Fisher told the newspaper. One employee immediately resigned, he said.

Starting pay for Mississippi correctional officers is $22,000 a year, and the state is considering legislation that would increase the salary, according to the newspaper, which reported that officers had not received a pay raise in eight years.

The 434,870 correctional officers working in the United States in 2011 earned an average annual salary of $43,550, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported. Officers in the lowest 10% of the profession earned $27,000 or less.

In South Carolina, where the inmates and girlfriends were charged last year with smuggling cell phones and drugs into prison, a correctional officer's starting salary is around $24,000, Ozmint said.

Is it possible to raise standards for prospective correctional officers and make psychological screening more stringent?

Right now, Ozmint said, a 21-year-old can become a guard after passing a criminal background test, taking a psych test and going through an in-person interview.

That's not much more than any other job applicant would be required to do.

A legislature has to raise pay, and if standards for screening are going to be improved, initially that will cause fewer people to apply, Ozmint said.

"If I raise standards, if I make it harder to become a correctional officer, I'm going to have fewer professionals watching inmates in those prisons," he said. "That isn't the solution."

Most staff start their jobs honest, he said. "When they cross the line it will usually be a situation where they tried to help an inmate. The staffer thinks they are only helping a heart-wrenching situation, but all of a sudden they've broken a rule."

The inmate has blackmail material, Ozmint said. "Suddenly the inmate has the control."

Often there's a complex, slow dance an inmate is choreographing to win over a guard, he and Giacalone said.

"It's usually love, money and or drugs," said Giacalone. "Those are usually the motivations. Maybe there are others, but you'll find at least one of those."

It's also important to remember that correctional workers and inmates are in a unique environment that can -- especially when an inmate is not paid much -- breed a sense of shared punishment.

"In a correctional environment, these workers are kind of prisoners themselves," Giacalone said. "They are locked up for hours -- 12- or 18-hour shifts -- with these inmates."

Gary Heyward, the corrupted guard, doesn't make excuses for what he did. And he warns against thinking there's an easy solution to preventing bad behavior.

"There's no blueprint," he said. "I've seen highly educated professionals who seem to have it all together do some crazy things inside the jail. Anyone has the potential to break the rules. Anyone."
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Was security really maximum at New York prison where killers broke out?

One source reports one prisoner was shot by LEO, and the other pursued.

Dead too.....Richard Matt

And now his art work is worth a fortune. Which be traded for 'favors' & his biological children probably won't see any of it.

BREAKING NEWS:Escaped NY Inmate Richard Matt Shot, Killed by Police

Escaped Inmate Richard Matt Shot and Killed by Police
By JOSH MARGOLIN (@JoshMargolin) , AARON KATERSKY (@aaronkatersky) and EMILY SHAPIRO Jun 26, 2015, 4:28 PM
Escaped convicted murderer Richard Matt was shot and killed by authorities today, according to officials, 20 days after he made an elaborate escape from an upstate New York prison.

New York State Police
This undated photo released by the New York State Police shows Richard Matt.
Officials believe the other convicted murder he escaped with from Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora, David Sweat, is still on the run, sources said.

Matt and Sweat escaped from the Clinton Correctional Facility early June 6 and more than 1,100 officers have been involved in the search.

Matt and Sweat used power tools to cut through the back of their adjacent cells at the maximum security prison, about 20 miles south of the Canadian border, police said. They broke through a brick wall, then cut into a steam pipe and slithered through it, finally emerging outside the prison walls through a manhole.

Matt was serving 25 years to life in prison after he kidnapped and beat a man to death in 1997.

Sweat was serving a life sentence after he was convicted of killing a Broome County sheriff's deputy in 2002

http://abcnews.go.com/US/escaped-york-inmate-richard-matt-shot-police/story?id=32060073/

DAY 19 - New York Times

INNew York

Richard Matt, Escaped Prisoner in New York Manhunt, Is Fatally Shot


Officers kept watch for David Sweat, one of two prison escapees, along Route 41 on Friday night.

CHRIS WATTIE / REUTERS
By WILLIAM K. RASHBAUM and BENJAMIN MUELLER
JUNE 26, 2015

Richard W. Matt, one of the two convicted murderers who engineered an elaborate escape from New York’s largest prison, was shot and killed on Friday by a federal agent, the authorities said, ending one prong of a three-week manhunt that spread over large stretches of the state’s northern terrain.

A team of agents from the federal Customs and Border Protection agency found Mr. Matt in the woods in Malone, N.Y., after he fired a shot at the back of a camping trailer, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo said at a news conference. Officers heard him cough as he fled on foot, and a federal agent killed him when Mr. Matt, still armed with a 20-gauge shotgun, refused orders to put up his hands, the authorities said.

On Friday night, officers closed in on the other inmate, David Sweat, 35, who was believed to be penned inside a perimeter of law enforcement officers, Superintendent Joseph A. D’Amico of the New York State Police said at the news conference.

The officers had not seen Mr. Sweat, but they believed that he had been near Mr. Matt when Mr. Matt shot at the camping trailer, officials said.

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YEAAAA for the good guy's; I would hope that both of them are brought out in a body bag...enough money has been spent on those two worthless humans!

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http://www.cnn.com/2015/06/27/us/new-york-prison-break/index.html

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WOW...that couple pulling that camper were extremely lucky; good thing those 2 convicts weren't so good at hitting a moving target or that driver would be DOA!

DAY 20 -

http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-new-york-escapees-20150627-story.htm/


http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/new-york-prison-escape/officials-search-escaped-prisoner-david-sweat-area-where-partner-was-n3830 /
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2 Hours ago -1,200 Searching For Sweat

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/06/28/search-for-second-escaped-murderer-intensifies-in-upstate-new-york/

Surviving escaped prisoner likely fatigued and prone to mistakes, police say

Published June 28, 2015

NY Sheriff: Fugitive tired, likely to make mistake

Police searching for the second of two escaped prisoners who pulled off an elaborate breakout from a maximum-security New York prison three weeks ago say that the remaining escapee is fatigued and likely to make a mistake after law enforcement officers shot and killed his accomplice Friday.

Hundreds of law enforcement officers have converged on a wooded area 30 miles from the Clinton Correctional Facility with helicopters and search dogs, where David Sweat is believed to be hiding. Sweat and fellow escapee Richard Matt escaped from the maximum-security prison in Dannemora about three weeks ago.

Matt was shot Friday afternoon after an encounter with border patrol agents.

About 1,200 searchers focused intensely on 22 square miles Saturday encompassing thick forests and heavy brush around where Matt was killed.

Franklin County Sheriff Kevin Mulverhill told Fox News that police are very motivated after Friday's events, while Sweat is likely fatigued, increasing the chances he will slip up.

"He's been out of prison for three weeks. He's been on the run for three weeks," Mulverhill said. "He's in this area, he's now lost his cellmate, his escapemate is gone, he's alone."

"If he's in this perimeter, we're pushing him we're moving him around," Mulverhill said. He's tired, he's going to make a mistake."

Sweat also could have an even tougher time now without someone to take turns resting with and watch his back, said Clinton County Sheriff David Favro.

"Now it's a one-man show and it makes it more difficult for him," Favro said. "And I'm sure fatigue is setting in for him as well, knowing the guy he was with has already been shot."

Authorities said Matt was shot by a border patrol agent when he failed to comply with orders in the woods near a cabin where a shot had been fired earlier in the day at a camping trailer. A 20-gauge shotgun was found on Matt, though he didn’t fire it at officers, authorities said.

"They verbally challenged him, told him to put up his hands. And at that time, he was shot when he didn't comply," New York State Police Superintendent Joseph D'Amico said at a news conference late Friday.

The breakthrough came Friday shortly before 2 p.m., when a person towing a camper head a loud sound and thought a tire had blown out. Finding the tire intact, the driver drove another eight miles before discovering a bullet hole.

Authorities converged on the location where the sound was heard and discovered the smell of gunfire inside a cabin. D’Amico said there was also evidence someone had fled out the back door.

A noise -- perhaps a cough -- ultimately did Matt in. A border patrol team discovered Matt, who was shot after failing to heed a command to raise his hands.

"As we were doing the ground search in the area, there was movement detected by officers on the ground, what they believed to be coughs. So they knew that they were dealing with humans as opposed to wildlife," he said.

"We have a lot of people in the area. We have canines and we have a decent perimeter set up and we're searching for Sweat at this time," he said.

The pair escaped the prison together on June 6. Gov. Andrew Cuomo called them “dangerous, dangerous men.”

Police blocked off all roads as officers hunted for Sweat in an area around Titusville Mountain State Forest in Malone, spanning 22 square miles.

Mitch Johnson said one of his best friends checked on his hunting cabin in Malone Friday afternoon and called police after noticing the scent of grape flavored gin as soon as he stepped into his cabin and spotting the bottle that had gone untouched for years resting on a kitchen table.

Johnson said his friend, correction officer Bob Willett, told him he summoned police about an hour before Matt was fatally shot and then heard a flurry of gun blasts.

Matt and Sweat used power tools to saw through a steel cell wall and several steel steam pipes, bashed a hole through a 2-foot-thick brick wall, and squirmed through pipes to escape.

Sweat was serving a sentence of life without parole in the killing of a sheriff's deputy in Broome County in 2002. Matt was serving 25 years to life for the killing and dismembering of his former boss.

A civilian worker at the prison has been charged with helping the killers flee by giving them hacksaw blades, chisels and other tools.

Prosecutors said Joyce Mitchell, a prison tailoring shop instructor who got close to the men while working with them, had agreed to be their getaway driver but backed out because she felt guilty for participating. Mitchell pleaded not guilty June 15 to charges including felony promoting prison contraband.

Authorities said the men had filled their beds in their adjacent cells with clothes to make it appear they were sleeping when guards made overnight rounds. On a cut steam pipe, the prisoners left a taunting note containing a crude caricature of an Asian face and the words "Have a nice day."

Clinton County District Attorney Andrew Wylie said they apparently used tools stored by prison contractors, taking care to return them to their toolboxes after each night's work.

On June 24, authorities charged Clinton correction officer Gene Palmer with promoting prison contraband, tampering with physical evidence and official misconduct. Officials said he gave the two prisoners the frozen hamburger meat Joyce Mitchell had used to hide the tools she smuggled to Sweat and Matt. Palmer's attorney said he had no knowledge that the meat contained hacksaw blades, a bit and a screwdriver.

Dannemora, built in 1845, occupies just over 1 square mile within the northern reaches of the Adirondack Forest Preserve and is surrounded by forest and farmland. The stark white perimeter wall of the prison, topped with guard towers, borders a main street in the village's business district.

The escape was the first in history from Clinton Correctional's maximum-security portion. In July 2003, two convicted murderers used tools from a carpentry shop at Elmira Correctional Facility to dig a hole in the roof of their cell and a rope of bedsheets to go over the wall. They were captured within three days, and a subsequent state investigation cited lax inmate supervision, poor tool control and incomplete cell searches.

The Associated Press and Fox News' Rick Leventhal contributed to this report

Day 20- 3 hours ago

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jun/28/new-york-police-close-escaped-prisoner-david-sweat/

New York police close in on remaining escaped prisoner
Police confident that convicted killer David Sweat will be captured within 48 hours after fellow escapee Richard Matt shot dead on Friday

New York prison escape checkpoint
A checkpoint on Route 30 in Malone, New York state, on Saturday, as the search for escaped prisoner David Sweat continues. Photograph: Jason Hunter/AP

Officers scouring dense and boggy woods for a killer who has been on the run for three weeks since escaping from a New York state prison have used floodlights to help their search area overnight.

Police carrying rifles manned checkpoints and searched vehicles in their hunt for David Sweat. The Franklin County sheriff, Kevin Mulverhill, said late on Saturday that tips continued to pour in and he was optimistic Sweat would be captured, perhaps within 48 hours.

“It’s going to be one of those phone calls that turns this case around,” he said.

Richard Matt – who once vowed never to be taken alive – was shot dead on Friday during an encounter with border patrol agents about 30 miles (48km) west of the prison from which he escaped with Sweat on 6 June. Sweat remained at large on Sunday, with a 1,200-strong search party focused intensely on 22 square miles (56 sq km) of thick forests and heavy brush near where Matt was killed.

Police hoped the solo escapee would finally succumb to the stress of little sleep, scant food and biting bugs. “Anyone in the woods and on the run from the law so to speak is not getting a full eight hours sleep, they’re not eating well and they have to keep moving,” Mulverhill said. “He’s fatigued, tired, and he’s going to make a mistake.”

Sweat could have an even tougher time now without someone to take turns resting with and to watch his back, the Clinton County sheriff, David Favro, said. “Now it’s a one-man show and it makes it more difficult for him. And I’m sure fatigue is setting in for him as well, knowing the guy he was with has already been shot.”

The breakthrough in the manhunt happened on Friday afternoon when somebody towing a camper heard a loud noise and thought a tyre had blown. Finding there was no flat, the driver drove eight miles before looking again and finding a bullet hole in the trailer. A tactical team responding to the scene of the shot smelled gunpowder inside a cabin and saw evidence that someone had fled out of the back door.

A noise – perhaps a cough – ultimately led to the discovery. A border patrol team discovered Matt, who was shot after failing to heed a command to raise his hands. He had a 20-gauge shotgun that was believed to have been taken from another cabin. The pair had apparently been relying on the remote region’s many hunting camps and seasonal dwellings for supplies.

Matt, who turned 49 the day before he died, was serving 25 years to life at Clinton correctional facility for the killing and dismemberment of his former boss. Local residents were relieved that one killer was no longer roaming the woods, but the constant commotion of speeding police cruisers and helicopters pointed to the continued danger.

“Half the threat is taken care of, but obviously David Sweat is on the loose,” said Matt Maguire, who was waiting for a police escort to pick up some clothes from his house inside the search area. Maguire and his fiancee decided a week ago to stay with nearby relatives.

Sweat, 35, was serving a sentence of life without parole in the killing of a sheriff’s deputy in Broome County in 2002. Mulverhill said investigators believe he may be armed.

Kind of amazing that, if captured alive and if he happens to kill more people while being pursued, he still will have the same sentence he had before he escaped.....

I just did a little cyber-surfing,
and read the dead one was found:
- injured, &
- drunk.

Yes RA.
Perhaps in part because of the reason you cite,
I doubt the remaining fugitive will be captured alive.

David Sweat, who escaped from a prison in Dannemora, N.Y., has been shot and caught alive in New York, sources tell Fox News.

4:13 pm , est. (1 hour ago)

CBS - 25 minutes ago

http://abcnews.go.com/US/york-prison-escapee-david-sweat-caught-week-manhunt/story?id=31648706/

Now perhaps life for all of those within that area of utter chaos will be able to return to 'NORMAL' or as usual. Normal isn't 'one size fits all'...LOL

So true!!! I felt badly for all the elementary school kids that had their ' safe zone ' threatened & may have been to young to understand.
And all the old & single people sleeping, sitting up with a gun for TWENTY DAYS.
And over 1,200-13,000 authorizes with sleepless nights, the surrounding states... & who knows how much all this cost Canada.
Geez !

Ya...maybe the Canadian's will send Cuomo a BILL...

Not that I would blame them any --- geeeise




http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/06/28/escaped-killer-reportedly-smelled-alcohol-after-being-gunned-down/

Sorry...but I'm thinking; if he'd been a 'BLACK MAN' --- there'd zero need for the ambulance ride to the hospital

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I'm quoting you on that!
I must log out & text 100 people now.