NY prison escapees

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 […]

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — The body of a convicted murderer who broke out of prison and was fatally shot after three weeks on the run was released to a funeral home Thursday as his fellow escapee continued his recovery at a hospital under heavy guard. Richard Matt’s body was being transported from a northern New […]