Posted on 06/08/2015 7:52:46 PM PDT by nickcarraway
The female prison worker questioned as a possible accomplice in the escape of two killers is a married, training supervisor at the facility, sources told The Post on Monday.
Joyce Mitchell has worked at Clinton Correctional Facility since 2008 — and her responsibilities include helping inmates learn how to tailor clothing, the sources said.
Sources said Tuesday that convicted murderers Richard Matt and David Sweat were allowed to wear civilian clothes instead of prison greens in their less restrictive wing of the jail dubbed the “Honor Block.”
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No wonder the Men Seeking Men media hasn't been naming the facility. Only referring to it as a maximum security prison or a New York prison.
Another “probed” thread?
CLINTON correctional facility? well there’s your answer right there. with a name like Clinton, anything can happen.
This is not the same article. This has new information.
The lure of conjugal visit sex.
**helping inmates learn how to tailor clothing**
Doesn’t that usually involve sharp, pointy objects? What could possibly go wrong!
When women are guarding male felons or vice versa, anything can happen. It’s not a good idea IMHO.
One of the “must haves” in any tailoring shop is a set of battery-powered, metal cutting power tools. Without them, you’re just not going to make that perfect cut to create raglan sleeves.
The guards and administration currently in charge at this prison will never live this down.
This “impossible” jailbreak illustrates one of the main reasons i don’t want Gitmo prisoners tried in the continental U.S.,they too may escape.
It’s also called Dannemora, and it’s situated in Clinton County. I wondered if they could have had inside help. When I worked in NYDOCS, convicts were allowed to wear shirts and sweat suits as long as they weren’t blue, black, gray, or orange. Those were the colors staff uniforms consisted of. If they wore a shirt, they had to wear the prison-issued green pants with it. I’m wondering what type of “civilian” clothes they were allowed in honor housing. If it was different from the main rule, then it was a bad decision, and I hope whoever put it into effect is held responsible. Usually those decisions aren’t made at the facility level, but in Albany.
I wonder how a cop killer and a murderer/dismemberer get into honor housing.
Maybe they drilled their way in.
All by the counselors and the psych staff that they see and what happens they are given status threw evaluations that are pathetic. When I worked in the PADOC there was a lot of lifers and murderers on the honor wings.
Don’t they have mannequins in a tailoring shop ?
Didn’t the guards find mannequins in the cell beds ? All dressed up with tailored clothing ?
Corcraft is the NY State prison systems industry program. They make prison clothing and industrial work clothes at Clinton. They make other products at several other prisons around the state. When I worked at Auburn, they made license plates and office furniture. There were civilians working there too, but there were also officers in the Plate and Cab shops for security. Those jobs were bid jobs, which were won by seniority, so the most senior officers won them, and usually stayed in them until they retired or died. If this beyotch was the instructor, she may have smuggled in colored clothing, or material for the escapees. Like everything else, there are good and bad civilian instructors.
During the years I worked for NY State, there were several instances of missing tools. Every shop had a shadow board with outlines of the tools that were available to use. Each tool was electronically inscribed with an inventory number, and an abbreviation for the classroom/workshop it was assigned to. The instructor controlled the issuing of the tools. He/she would usually take the inmate's ID card in exchange for the item, and the info would be entered into a log book. When the inmate returned the tool, he received his ID card back, and the time returned would be entered. Simple procedure right? But inevitably, tools would go missing, and either found on the prison grounds, or while frisking a common area of prison buildings. One time we found a screw driver from one of the classrooms in an outdoors area. It appeared to have been missing for a while since it had been partly buried in the dirt. When we checked the classroom's shadow board, we found that there was a new screwdriver in its place. How he got another screwdriver is anyone's guess, since he hadn't handed in the old one to get the new one. We surmised that he had gone to Sears or one of those stores, and bought the same type of screwdriver, inscribed it, just to cover the loss. He had never reported the other one missing, which he was required to do since they can be used as lethal weapons. We questioned him about it, and we had to write up the results of our investigation, and turn the paperwork over to our supervisor. Nothing ever happened to the teacher. And then of course there was the loss of instruments from the medical department. That was always fun too.
Interesting that they were on the Honor Block. One of them had successfully broken out of jail in the past.
Sounds crazy huh? Honor Housing is based on behavior while in prison, not on the crimes they commit. If it was left up to me, there wouldn't be any such thing, but I never kissed ass enough to become a big-wig in Albany, so those decisions were never left to me. Most honor housing inmates are long-timers.
I started as an officer at Auburn prison in 1980. Winston Moseley who killed Kitty Genovese was a porter in the Administration Building. Moseley escaped from Attica.This is from an online crime site:
"In 1968, during a trip to a Buffalo, New York hospital for surgery (precipitated by a soup can he placed in his own rectum as a pretext to leave prison), Moseley overpowered a guard and beat him up to the point that his eyes were bloody. He then took a bat and swung it at the closest person to him and took five hostages, raping one of them before he was recaptured after a two-day manhunt. He also participated in the later Attica Prison riots."
So he not only escapes, assaults a C.O., and rapes a woman, he gets a nice cushy job up in the Admin Building where all the woman work.
Don't know if it was true, but fellow officers told me that one of the women who regularly came to visit him was the woman he had raped, and I believe one of the hostages he had held was the woman's husband.
I had to inter-act with this POS because I'd worked the wire gate from time-to-time, where he would have to pass through and show his ID to gain access to his job in the Admin Building. I was a new female hack, and my name tag had my first initial K. and my last name on it. Moseley thought he was a ladies' man, and tried to strike up conversations from time to time. One time he asked me what the K in my name stood for. I told him it was none of his business. Had I been on the ball, I should have said Kitty.
I could never be a C.O. and maintain that kind of professionalism with murderers and rapists. Glad that there are people out there like you who could....
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