In June 2015, two convicted murderers broke out of the Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora, in New York. Aided by prison employee Joyce Mitchell, double murderer Richard Matt and cop-killer David Sweat slipped out of their cells, followed a network of tunnels and pipes under the thirty-foot prison wall, and climbed out of a manhole to freedom. For three weeks, the residents of local communities were virtual prisoners in their own homes as law enforcement from across the nation swept the rural wilderness near the Canadian border. A lifelong resident of the community and former Clinton prison guard tells the whole story from an insider's point of view.
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