LT,
And what exactly WAS/ is the involvement of the guards? The prisoners planned this months, they would of had to.
Yet,no mention of a computer room or even a "shake down" to confiscate cell phones. There had to be illegal phones in their. And I'm sure with guards fingerprints all over them. And containing precious data & contacts.
.... So you know, they are long gone

No wonder no one can find these murderers , they are too busy coverng their a@@s & everything else up.
Do you think they are bleaching the whole town & reading their script ?

It may be unique or just different state-to-state but here in KS none of those 'NEW HIRE' prison staff are asked to take 'ANY PSYCH' evals prior to being hired!

I know 4 such adult humans that were 'FIRED' from the El Dorado Penitentiary 35 miles to the Southwest from me!
1 local LPN was discharged for providing both the guards & inmates 'HYDROCORDONE' out of her own pocket stash!
2 male guards 'FIRED' for verbal & physical abuse to; not only prisoners but to the 'DOG PLACEMENT PROGRAM' that they have established within that prison system.

So I doubt that the requirements for Mrs. Mitchell would have been anything but a simple reference check - criminal record check; any warm body is able to work in any 'LOCK UP' facility here in KS.

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2OLD,
Good point. I didn't consider that with J. Mitchell. She is a tailor/seamstress. So she may be, on the same civilian level (or a notch higher, since she worked in the prison daily ) as the "an outside contractor"

... ach ha!!! No mention of the contractor that was hired to do all the labor for reconstruction!!
WHO owned that company?
WHO was he related to from the prison and/ or ' Little Siberia'!?
WHO are the men, & how many came into the prison with the tools !?

Good points.
And while Detective LTme would track down the contractor lead on the investigation, it's already been reported their tools were all accounted for:

and

as Mitchell is reportedly cooperating, she's already given LEO information on what tools she provided. Whether what she provided was both truthful and complete, may yet to be determined.

I spoke with a NY C.O. before this manhunt. I didn't ask him about psych. evals.
While my paramilitary experience is limited, my military experience would include evaluating subordinates in the command.
If I had reason to question a matter of significance, I'd share that up the chain of command, particularly in jobs as sensitive as those in prison.

I'm not suggesting a prison seamstress has a paramilitary rank.
But I'd like to believe her supervisor has some chain-of-command connection to the warden.

PS

Local NBC reports a confirmed sighting of the pair in the Southern tier of New York State.

Let's see if they can pick up the scent.

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LTme,
Actually it is NOT the tools themselves, that I am interested in.
Rather the 'Contractor' company & owner & workers/ labours, that quite possibly could have aided in the escape in some fashion.
*Other than Matt's own genius, Sweat's master planning, Mitchell's delusional thinking*

INSIDE help, (other than other convicts), like the GUARDS & (the outside) CONTRACTORS... & WHOM are they RELATED to... for a possible/ probable, COVER UP( that would SILENCE the town & perhaps the media.... temporarily)

Yahoo News

http://news.yahoo.com/

Hunt for escaped convicts heats up near New York-Pennsylvania line
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Reuters By Suzannah Gonzales 6 hours ago
By Suzannah Gonzales

(Reuters) - Hundreds of law enforcement officers stepped up their hunt in western New York state for two convicted murderers who escaped from an upstate prison more than two weeks ago, as another possible sighting of the men was reported in a new search area.

The manhunt centered on the town of Friendship, located about 280 miles (450 km) southwest of the Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora, near the Canadian border, where the escaped convicts were serving life sentences for murder.

The search in Friendship was winding down by Sunday night, but increased patrols will stay in the area, New York State Police spokesman Beau Duffy told Reuters.

"We will continue to search this area until all leads have been exhausted," New York State Police Major Michael Cerretto said on Sunday.

"As we have in other areas of this state, we will search under every rock, behind every tree and structure until we are confident that area is secure."

State police received a call early Saturday afternoon from a witness who spotted two men with descriptions similar to the escaped convicts, Richard Matt and David Sweat, on a railroad line in Friendship, Cerretto said.

Police interviewed the witness at length and determined that the witness was credible and the lead should be investigated, Cerretto said, calling the sighting "unconfirmed."

About 300 law enforcement officers were searching the area, along New York's so-called southern tier, near the border with Pennsylvania, Cerretto said. That is double the number that state police said were on the ground on Saturday.

A secure perimeter was established around the area of the sighting and roadblocks were set up, Cerretto said at a brief press conference. He made no mention of other sightings in the area

The Buffalo News reported that a civilian told police that he believed he had seen two men fitting the descriptions of the convicts walking along a road in Friendship on Sunday morning.

The newspaper did not disclose how it learned about the report, and a spokesman for the New York State Police declined comment on it.

The reported sightings of Matt, 48, and Sweat, 35, follow the suspension of corrections officer Gene Palmer at Clinton in connection with the escape.

His lawyer, Andrew Brockway, said Palmer has cooperated with investigators, who questioned him for 14 hours on Saturday.

"Any information he has that will aid in the capture of Matt and Sweat will be given to law enforcement," Brockway told Reuters in an email. "He looks forward to going back to work as soon as possible."

Joyce Mitchell, 51, a training supervisor in the prison tailor shop, is charged with helping the inmates escape by giving them tools.

The two inmates cut through their cell walls and crawled through a steam pipe before emerging from a manhole outside the prison, authorities said. The pair was discovered missing during the morning bed check on June 6.

(Reporting by Suzannah Gonzales in Chicago)

DAY 17- DNA & Increased Reward , A Cabin ,Hamburger Meat & Age Progression Photos.

http://www.cnn.com/2015/06/22/us/new-york-prison-break/

Live TV
U.S. Edition


Source: Escaped killers' DNA found in upstate New York cabin

By Michael Pearson, Jethro Mullen and David Shortell, CNN
Updated 5:57 PM ET, Mon June 22, 2015

Story highlights

Tools used for escape possibly smuggled in frozen meat, says source familiar with the investigation
No evidence fugitives have support network, law enforcement source says
Search in Franklin County, New York, prompted by sighting of someone running into woods near cabin
(CNN)DNA from New York prison escapees Richard Matt and David Sweat has been found inside a burglarized cabin in upstate New York, a law enforcement source told CNN.

The discovery has re-energized the two-week-old search for the convicted killers, who staged a movie script-worthy escape from Clinton Correctional Facility on June 6 and haven't been seen since -- at least not by authorities.

However, a witness on Saturday spotted someone running into the woods near a cabin in the Mountain View community, only 20 miles from the prison, according to acting Franklin County District Attorney Glenn MacNeill.

Investigators think the figure spotted Saturday could have been one of the fugitive prisoners, MacNeill said.

Since then, law enforcement authorities have flooded the rural community, swooping in on helicopters, cruisers and all-terrain vehicles to scour the region for the men. More state and federal teams are to be redeployed on Monday, the law enforcement source told CNN.

Briefing reporters Monday, New York State Police Maj. Charles Guess declined to get into specifics about what was found at the cabin for fear of jeopardizing the search.

"It's a confirmed lead for us," he said. "It has generated a massive law enforcement response, as you can see, and we're going to run this to ground."

The break-in suggests the men "need provisions and are desperate," a law enforcement source briefed on the investigation told CNN's Deborah Feyerick.

There's no evidence the fugitives have the kind of support network they would need to get away from the prison after their plan to get a ride from prison tailor Joyce Mitchell fell apart, the source said.

Are they listening to police radio traffic?
As part of the investigation into whether Matt and Sweat had help, police are reviewing months worth of hotel registries in the area, the source said.

Meanwhile, searchers are now working to contain the two men in the area, knowing they are running and on foot, the source said.

Authorities also are concerned that Matt and Sweat may be monitoring radio communications, the source said, without being specific on whether the men have radios or similar devices giving them the ability to monitor police communications.

Regardless, the sighting and DNA discovery explain the sudden shift in the search from an area near New York's border with Pennsylvania, some 260 miles to the southwest of the prison, where much of the weekend search had focused after somebody reported a possible sighting of the two fugitives.

That search wrapped up late Sunday, New York State Police said.

MacNeill urged residents in Franklin County to be alert for potential danger during the search for the escaped killers, whom authorities described last week as posing a "significant threat to anyone who may come into contact with them."

"Be inside with the doors locked and very diligent," MacNeill warned residents.

Matt and Sweat cut holes through steel cell walls, then shimmied along catwalks and through pipes before emerging from a manhole outside the prison gates and disappearing. The tools they used may have been smuggled inside a frozen chunk of hamburger meat, a source familiar with the investigation told CNN on Monday.

Investigators are looking into whether Mitchell convinced a prison guard to pass the meat to the inmates in a way that bypassed a metal detector, the source said. The two escapees were housed in an honor block where they were allowed to cook their own food.

Their escape set off a massive search for them and a probing investigation of employees and practices at the prison.

'When it's in your backyard, it's kind of crazy'
In Franklin County, Amy Pulsifer -- manager of the Trailside Bar and Restaurant -- said she was working when things got "crazy insane" Sunday evening as helicopters swooped overhead and state troopers drove into town.

Corrections officers stop a vehicle Monday, June 22, in Owls Head, New York, about 20 to 25 miles west of the prison where convicted killers Richard Matt and David Sweat escaped. The discovery of the escapees' DNA in a cabin has re-energized the 2-week-old search for the fugitives, who staged a movie script-worthy escape from the Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora, New York, on June 6.

A bus transports corrections officers to a search area in Mountain View, New York, on June 22.
Manhunt for escaped New York prisoners 21 photos

New York State Police officers gather along Route 20 near Friendship on June 21. About 300 law enforcement officers have searched the area.
Manhunt for escaped New York prisoners

Manhunt for escaped New York prisoners
The troopers set up roadblocks just across the street, off county Highway 27, she said.

They set up a command post using ATVs. One trooper asked Pulsifer for a map of snowmobile trails in the area, which is near a winter ski resort and in an area criss-crossed with recreational trails.

"I'm kind of excited but nervous at the same time," Pulsifer told CNN, adding that her boss had told her to close the bar early because of safety concerns.

Escaped murderer in New York called cunning and evil

She said she'd followed the news of the manhunt as it unfolded previously in Cadyville, another town in the region.

"Now, when it's in your backyard, it's kind of crazy," she told CNN, saying she planned to go home and lock up with her gun.

Fear in Friendship, New York
Pulsifer's concerns are familiar to people in Friendship, the rural town near the Pennsylvania border where somebody reported seeing two men along a railroad line on Saturday.

Many residents spent the rest of the weekend holed up in their homes while around 300 law enforcement officers combed the area.

Gary Baker, 80, said he was terrified of the possibility that the killers could be nearby.

Baker is a caretaker at the town's Maple Grove Cemetery, right next to his home. But authorities blocked off the cemetery as search helicopters hovered overhead.

Baker was left to sit alone in his home, with all his doors locked and a rifle in his lap.

On most wanted list
Franklin County and Friendship aren't the only communities where police have swarmed in the hunt for Matt and Sweat. The manhunt, now in its 17th day, has primarily been focused in the area around Dannemora, where the prison is situated.

The U.S. Marshals Service has added Richard Matt and David Sweat to its list of the 15 most wanted criminals.
The U.S. Marshals Service has added Richard Matt and David Sweat to its list of the 15 most wanted criminals.
Described by authorities as "very dangerous," the two killers have been added to the U.S. Marshals Service's list of its 15 most wanted fugitives. Reward money of $75,000 has been offered for information leading to the capture of either man.

As many as 800 law enforcement officers have participated in the manhunt, which has cleared nearly 200 abandoned buildings, hundreds of occupied homes and more than 600 miles of rural trails, officials said.

New York prison escape

State police have asked hunters and homeowners with surveillance cameras to check their footage all the way back to the day of the prison break for any unusual activity.

The search has stretched to Canada and Mexico, with wanted posters of the escaped killers given out at both borders.

Prison tailor in jail, corrections officer on leave
Authorities are still investigating how exactly Matt and Sweat managed to orchestrate their escape, which involved cutting through a steel wall and navigating a series of tunnels until the men emerged from a manhole outside the prison walls.

Mitchell, a prison tailor shop instructor, is accused of helping them by supplying tools like chisels and drill bits. She is in jail and has pleaded not guilty to the charges against her.

A source familiar with the investigation has told CNN that Mitchell, 51, had a sexual relationship with Matt.

Investigators are looking into whether other prison staff members or inmates played a role in the breakout.

Authorities said Friday that a male corrections officer was placed on paid administrative leave as part of the investigation into the escape.

While no charges have been filed, the officer could face accusations of facilitating the escape and promoting prison contraband, Clinton County District Attorney Andrew Wylie told CNN affiliate WPTZ on Saturday.

State authorities haven't named the officer, but his attorney identified him Sunday as Gene Palmer, a 28-year veteran of Clinton Correctional Facility.

"Right now Mr. Palmer is fully cooperating with any or all questions that are being asked of him," attorney Andrew Brockway told CNN on Sunday. "He spent 14 hours yesterday and he was completely forthcoming."

Palmer knew Matt and Sweat and had received a painting done by Matt, but Brockway said he is sure his client did not know the inmates were planning an escape.

A retired sergeant at the prison, Jeff Dumas, said he is sure Palmer was not involved in any escape plot.

"I don't believe that he actually intentionally helped these guys," Dumas told CNN's "New Day."

He said Palmer was one of two corrections officers responsible for escorting inmates to and from work at the prison's industrial building and was always conscientious in his work.

"My gut feeling is that somehow they may have conned him or taken a shortcut somewhere along the way in procedures during an escort and that would be about it," Dumas said.

Brockway had a similar sentiment.

"These two people are psychopaths, they are master manipulators," Brockway said of Matt and Sweat. "They're obviously in prison for life so they have nothing but time to develop schemes to take advantage of innocent people."

CNN's Sara Ganim, Linh Tran, Alexandra Field, Carolyn Sung, Holly Yan, Steve Almasy, Shimon Prokupecz, Deborah Feyerick and Poppy Harlow contributed to this report.

DAY - 15

http://abcnews.go.com/US/exclusive-video-offers-glimpse-escaped-convict-richard-matts/story?id=31960516

The mystery deepens.

It seems the pair was hole up in a hunting cabin belonging to a hunting club.
Turns out some of the prison employees the murderers knew are members of the club.

Might they have let the murderers know it would be vacant this time of year?

And now police are concerned the escapees may be armed.

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There are reports that tools were smuggled to them in ground beef.

So what is a seamstress doing with ground beef.

- or -

Does that mean the pair also got help from the kitchen?

Thisis one big cluster f$%k. This is costing the taxpayers millions a day between local and state law enforcement officers, corrections officers, US Marshall's, FBI Agents, ICE Agents looking for them and even National Guard equipment and personnel are being used.

These are two scary guys. Anyone who would kill a cop wouldn't hesitate to kill a civilian and both of these guys are cold blooded killers. I read that Law Enforcement are only going in heavily armed large groups to investigate claims.

I do sense the escapees are smarter than the LEO looking for them.

And I get the impression it's not a 24/7 search.
Are they knocking off at night?

When President Bush (elder) went after Panama's Noriega, I think the manhunt was around the clock.

The idea is to keep them cold, hungry, and tired.
Sleep deprivation causes the brain to stumble.

As S2 points out, we're starting week #3 on this.

boooo !

With the amount of people and resources involved I would bet that it is around the clock. They are keeping these guys on the move that's for sure. As much as I hate Governor Como he is doing a good job at putting all resources into this.

"Kill those who protect and serve and no one feels safe" David Rossi, Criminal Minds.

The distribution seems to concentrated.

On some superficial level I understand it.

But it seems like cart before horse to me.
The 14th Amendment promises "equal protection of the laws."

So if there are two homicides; one where a tax payer is killed, the other where a COP is killed;
why would the COP killer be more severely (or differently) punished?

If COPs are for our protection, why wouldn't it be the guy that killed one of us that's more severely punished?

- or, same for both -

why did PA spend 11 million dollars looking for eric frein, who killed a state trooper. i live in PA and i will guarantee they wouldnt spend no 11 million dollars looking for someone if i was murdered.

DAY - 16 , CNN

http://www.cnn.com/2015/06/23/us/new-york-prison-break/

Story highlights

Joyce Mitchell admits smuggling saw blades in frozen meat she passed to a guard, source says
DNA and boots discovered left behind in a burglarized cabin in upstate New York
Joyce Mitchell refused to participate with the prisoners in harming her husband, Lyle Mitchell said
Cadyville, New York (CNN)For months before a pair of convicted murderers made their brazen escape from the Clinton Correctional Facility, prison tailor Joyce Mitchell used baked goods to win favors for Richard Matt and David Sweat, going so far as to ask prison officials to move the inmates' cells next to each other, a law enforcement official told CNN on Tuesday.

Among the apparent favors: asking one guard to pass frozen hamburger meat to Matt, bypassing the prison's metal detector in a violation of policy, according to the source.

Mitchell, who has been charged with aiding the escapees, has admitted she smuggled hacksaw blades into the meat, the official said. Gene Palmer, the guard on the honor block where Matt and Sweat were housed, was unaware of the meat's contents when he was asked to get it to Matt, according to Palmer's attorney Andrew Brockway, who says his client was conned by Mitchell. Palmer is now on paid leave.

At the time of their escape, Matt and Sweat were housed next to each other on the prison's honor block, which awarded inmates who showed good behavior special privileges such as having hot plates and refrigerators in their cells.

Matt, 48, and Sweat, 35, cut holes through steel cell walls, then shimmied along catwalks and through pipes before emerging from a manhole outside the prison gates and disappearing June 6.

Accused of helping the fugitives by supplying the blades, chisels, a punch and a drill bit, Mitchell is in jail and has pleaded not guilty. Her attorney did not respond to requests for comment Tuesday.

A spokeswoman for the Department of Corrections said Tuesday there were "a number of ongoing probes" into how the pair escaped, but she wouldn't comment on the details of those investigations.

Did escaped killers get tools hidden in hamburger meat?
Did escaped killers get tools hidden in hamburger meat? 01:10
Prison escape puts staff-inmate relationships in the spotlight

Cabin break-in; DNA discovery
The new revelations come as law enforcement officials chase the most promising lead yet in the manhunt for the pair. DNA from Matt and Sweat was found in a burglarized cabin not far from where the convicted murders broke out more than two weeks ago, a law enforcement source told CNN.

Escaped killers' DNA found in upstate N.Y. cabin
Escaped killers' DNA found in upstate N.Y. cabin 01:54
Personal items, including boots, were discovered Saturday inside the cabin in Mountain View, some 20 miles west of the prison, another law enforcement source briefed on the investigation told CNN's Deborah Feyerick.

The items left behind, and the manner in which they were left, suggest the pair were surprised and left in a hurry, according to the source.

The boots left in the cabin suggest one of the fugitives may be barefoot, the source said, possibly hindering his ability to move through the dense brush. But there may have been other boots and shoes in the cabin that were taken by the pair.

Authorities are combing the area near the cabin.

The discovery re-energized the search, now in its 18th day.

Franklin County Sheriff Kevin Mulverhill told CNN that the search area is about the size of the town of Bellmont, New York, which is about 170 square miles. Authorities have flooded the area with helicopters, cruisers and all-terrain vehicles. As many as 1,000 people are working the search.

"It's very rough terrain," said Mulverhill. "It's not easy to get to, it's not easy to traverse."

Officials are also concerned that the escapees may break in to another one of the seasonal cabins, many used by hunters, and steal weapons.

Corrections officer used killers as 'sources'
Palmer is a 28-year veteran of Clinton Correctional Facility and is cooperating fully with the investigation, Brockway told CNN.

Palmer knew Matt and Sweat for years at the prison and had received a painting done by Matt, Brockway said. But he wasn't aware the inmates were planning an escape, the attorney stressed.

Palmer used Matt and Sweat as "sources" for information that he would "use to ensure the safety of his co-workers and of the facility, and of other inmates," Brockway told CNN.

"He wants these two individuals to be caught, and anything that he can do to help law enforcement do their job, he's willing to cooperate," Brockway said Monday.

Tailor's husband says he was target
Meanwhile Tuesday, the husband of Joyce Mitchell spoke for the first time publicly on his wife's role in the inmates' escape, detailing the alleged plot to kill him.

Lyle Mitchell told NBC's "Today" show that Joyce Mitchell revealed the prisoners' alleged plan to harm him him shortly after their escape. Matt allegedly told Joyce he would give her pills that would knock her husband out, so she would have no problem leaving their home to come meet him.

"She told me that Matt wanted her to pick him up," Lyle Mitchell said. But Joyce Mitchell refused to drug her husband, so the convicts got tough on her, she told him. "(Matt) started threatening her, (saying) someone inside the facility was going to do something to me, to harm me, or kill me, or somebody outside of the jail, if she didn't stay with this," Lyle Mitchell told NBC's Matt Lauer in an exclusive interview that aired Tuesday.

Had she kept the date, she'd be dead now, Lyle Mitchell believes. And he might be, too.

He still loves his wife, though he's mad at her, Mitchell said. But support her? "As of right now, I don't know what to think," he said.

Both of the Mitchells worked at the prison in its tailoring block, and investigators said Joyce Mitchell, 51, had a sexual relationship with Matt. Lyle Mitchell didn't know about that relationship, Clinton County District Attorney Andrew Wylie said.

Lyle Mitchell told NBC that his wife swore on her son's life that she "never, ever" had sex with either of the convicts.

A LIFE TIME MOVIE

http://m.tmz.com/#Article/2015/06/19/escaped-new-york-convicts-prison-lifetime-movie/

Richard Matt and David Sweat, the two killers who escaped from a New York prison, are about to get the chance of a Lifetime ... on TV.

Johnson Production Group -- an entertainment company deep into the world of 'Ripped from the Headlines' TV -- is going to film a show chronicling the escape, the manhunt and hopefully the capture from the vantage point of Joyce Mitchell, the woman who allegedly helped them bust out.

JPG honchos tell us, there’s a market for female crime thrillers and they reckon viewers are probably even more fascinated by Joyce than the killers themselves.

The production company is confident the show can make air within 5 months, and they can easily pivot as events warrant.

As for where it lands, JPG says they have a good relationship with Lifetime as well as online streaming networks like Hulu.

JPG has produced a slew of TV movies, including "Double Daddy" and "Teenage Bank Heist."

t8,
Do you agree it's a 14th Amendment issue?

S2,
It's an interesting element of infotainment.
After the remarkable Israeli rescue at Entebbe of airliner hostages.
iirc it was about a week before a paperback book reached store shelves, title:
90 Minutes At Entebbe.

It will be interesting to see the Mitchell video, for several reasons.

5:AM/ET update: the manhunt continues.

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LTme,
If you go there with the14 th amendment... you may loose your crime solvers. But here is a Cornell university link.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/amendmentxiv/

And I made a thread in " Books & Movies " forum. about the upcoming TV movie. ( that I refuse to watch )