New York Prison Worker Who Helped Inmates Escape Gets Up To 7 Years

Before receiving a sentence of between two and one third and seven years in state prison, Joyce Mitchell tearfully begged for mercy from Clinton County Judge Kevin Ryan.

Joyce Mitchell, the prison seamstress who helped two convicted murders escape from a New York prison earlier this year, has been sentenced to jail time for her crimes. Matt was killed by a border agent June 26. Officials said he gave the two prisoners frozen hamburger meat Mitchell used to hide the hacksaw blades she smuggled to Sweat and Matt.

Mitchell said the 2 murderers also suffered from gained exactly where her parents one in every of her about three young children existence, knowing that they was at anxious about such a security along with you.

“I was fearful of Mr. Matt threatening to kill my husband and wanting to know where my son and mother live”, she told the judge.

“Mr. Johnston said that while there was no disputing Ms. Mitchell’s role in the breakout, he said that he believed the men must have had help from others and that fact should not be lost because of Ms. Mitchell’s admission”.

“I would have liked to have seen additional charges, enhanced charges, because of her culpability, her criminal culpability here and our hands are tied”, Wylie said.

“This is by far the worst mistake I have ever made in my life”. “Many residents did not sleep for many nights, afraid that these two extremely violent individuals might be outside their homes”, Ryan said. The charge was contraband.

Attorneys are reportedly offering David Sweat a deal in exchange for a guilty plea.

“I would take it all back if I could, but I can’t”, she told NBC. In a statement released yesterday, New York State Inspector General Catherine Leahy Scott, who is conducting her own probe of the prison break, said, “She is responsible for the weeks of fear the community endured”.