Prison worker admits smuggling contraband to escaped convicts

[Wireless News]

As hundreds of officers continue to comb through New York, Vermont, and Canada nearly a week into the manhunt for escaped prisoners David Sweat and Richard Matt, the prison employee under investigation for assisting their escape, Joyce Mitchell,-has finally broken her silence. Ms. Mitchell, who oversaw the tailor shop at the Clinton Correctional Facility in upstate New York, has admitted to smuggling Mr. Matt and Mr. Sweat various contraband, Clinton County District Attorney Andrew Wylie told CNN on Friday. Thursday night, the Albany Times Union reported a different story: that Mitchell had in fact given Matt and Sweat the tools, as well as access to a cell phone.

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