State Police Superintendent Joseph D’Amico says at a briefing Wednesday that the woman befriended “the inmates and may have had some role in assisting them.”
The woman is Joyce Mitchell, an industrial training supervisor at the maximum-security Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora. She worked in the prison tailor shop.
There have been no charges or disciplinary action lodged against Mitchell or any of the other civilian employees, guards or contractors who have been questioned about the escape of Richard Matt and David Sweat.
Both were serving life sentences for murder. They used power tools to cut their way out of the prison and escaped late Friday or early Saturday.
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