NY prison worker pleads guilty in escape of 2 killers

Prison worker Joyce Mitchell poured her heart out to investigators about her relationships with the convicted murderers she helped escape from an upstate New York prison, detailing her increasing sexual contact with one of them and her deepening involvement in the plot over time, according to a series of statements she made to police. “I enjoyed the attention, the feeling both of them gave me and the thought of a different life”. She was suspended without pay from her job when she was arrested June 12.

The 51-year-old faces a sentence ranging from 2 1/3 years to 7 years in prison.

Sentencing was scheduled for September 28.

Authorities said Mitchell hid the tools in meat kept in the tailor shop refrigerator.

Before her plea, Mitchell’s handcuffs were removed so she could sign a form to waive a grand jury hearing on her charges.

Mitchell also told investigators that Matt had given her two pills to drug her husband as part of the escape plan.

Wylie said he could not convict Mitchell exclusively on her statements to investigators and it was in the “interests of justice” to cut a deal with her. “I didn’t say anything because I was scared for my husband”.

After that, the reportedly well-hung Matt began donning the coat “so that Mitchell could touch his genitals”, NBC reported.

Mitchell also said Matt gave her two pills to “drug my husband Lyle with”. Corrections officer Gene Palmer then took the meat to Sweat and Matt, who were housed in a section where inmates are allowed to cook their meals. “I do not know what they did with the photos”. Richard Matt was shot and killed by a border patrol team and David Sweat was wounded and caught just a mile away from the Canadian border.

In exchange for Mitchell guilty plea, Clinton County District Attorney Andrew Wylie chose not to charge her with separate counts for each time she allegedly brought screwdriver bits and other items into the prison.

They are the two killers who staged an elaborate escape from the prison in northern New York last month – after Mitchell smuggled hacksaw blades and other tools to them. Asked why Mitchell helped in the escape, her defense attorney, Stephen Johnston said Richard Matt made her feel good about herself, and she was “swept off her feet”.

“She wanted to expedite her case proceedings and move on”, he said. “After Lyle was asleep, I was supposed to drive to Dannemora and meet them by the powerhouse”. Joyce Mitchell cries as she sits with her attorney Stephen Johnston in court on Tuesday July 28, 2015 in Plattsburgh, New York Mitchell, an instructor in the tailor shop at the Clinton Correctional Facilit…