David Sweat and Richard Matt's escape from the maximum-security Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora, New York baffled law enforcement and state officials in June 2015. The escape inspired the ...

Sweat "acted like he knew [Mitchell] for years," former inmate says. — -- As both a prison employee and a corrections officer face charges for allegedly helping convicted murderers Richard Matt ...

They were serving sentences for murder when Richard Matt and David Sweat mounted a sophisticated plan to escape from Clinton Correctional Facility in upstate New York, launching a three-week manhunt ...

If not for some gunfire, and his urge to cough, escaped murderer Richard Matt —who was shot dead Friday — might still be free. With prison-break partner David Sweat, also a convicted murderer, still ...

MALONE, N.Y. -- Escaped killer Richard Matt was shot and killed Friday afternoon by law enforcement officials searching for him in the wilderness area where his DNA was found in a cabin near the ...

ALBANY, N.Y. -- The former prison tailor who helped two killers escape a maximum-security New York prison was released Thursday after more than four years behind bars. Joyce Mitchell, 55, was released ...

A three-week manhunt for two escaped prisoners, called a "nightmare" by New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, came to a violent end this past weekend when one inmate was shot and killed Friday and another was ...