On June 6, 2015, inmates Richard Matt and David Sweat escaped from New York State's largest maximum security prison, Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora. The media became instantly obsessed with the story: two convicted murderers sliced their way through the brick and steel wall of their cells, meandered through a maze of tunnels, popped out of a manhole, and walked off into the night. Only a handful of inmates had successfully broken out of Clinton since the facility opened in 1845, and not many have made the attempt. Barbed wire, concrete walls, and the wilderness of the Adirondacks...
On June 6, 2015, inmates Richard Matt and David Sweat escaped from New York State's largest maximum security prison, Clinton Correctional Facility in ...