Joyce Mitchell

PLATTSBURGH, N.Y. (AP) — The former prison employee who provided the tools that two murderers used to cut their way out of a maximum-security facility in northern New York will pay the state nearly $80,000 to cover the costs of repairing the damage caused during the daring breakout. A prosecutor said during Joyce Mitchell’s restitution […]

PLATTSBURGH, N.Y. (AP) — A former prison worker who said she was in “way over” her head when she helped two murderers escape from a maximum-security lockup by providing them with tools was sentenced Monday to up to seven years behind bars. Joyce Mitchell, 51, wept and apologized as she was sentenced to 2 1/3 […]

PLATTSBURGH, N.Y. (AP) — A northern New York prison worker accused of smuggling hacksaw blades in frozen hamburger meat to two killers who later broke out and spent more than two weeks on the run is due in court Tuesday for arraignment. Joyce Mitchell, a tailor shop instructor at Clinton Correctional Facility, was jailed shortly […]