Prison employee arrested, faces two felony charges for aiding escape of two murderers

Fox News ^ | June 12, 2015

[jazusamo]

DEVELOPING: The female prison employee at the center of an investigation into the escape of two killers was arrested Thursday and charged with providing them assistance.

The New York State Police said Joyce Mitchell, 51, faced two felony charges related to helping Richard Matt and David Sweat escape from the Clinton Correctional Facility in upstate New York one week ago.

The men are still at large.

Mitchell was charged with Promoting Prison Contraband 1st Degree, and Criminal Facilitation, 4th Degree, both felonies, police said.

Earlier, the local district attorney said she had provided "equipment" to the pair, but not the power tools they are believed to have used to cut their way out of the maximum-security facility.

However, Wylie said Mitchell, a supervisor in the prison's tailoring shop, brought "contraband" into the prison but he declined to elaborate on what, specifically, she gave them. He said Mitchell can be criminally charged for her alleged role but no charges have been filed yet.

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Hugh and series mid-Life crisis.

[aposiopetic]

Clinton Correctional Facility

Aptly named.

[dragnet2]

She’s a unionized state employee?

Has the union bailed her out already?

[jazusamo]

Yep, she’s got to be really messed up.

[dp0622]

well it must have seemed like a good idea at the time

[morphing libertarian]

People who aid in escapes, attempts should be given the same penalty as the person they are aidning

[Tijeras_Slim]

She should have just bought a Miyata.

[Gamecock]

Are you surprised?

[left that other site]

Not at all.

[Rodamala]

She chose... poorly.

[left that other site]

Indeed.

[NormsRevenge]

Slammer time.

[left that other site]

The best way to handle a MLC is to get a new Harley.

[jazusamo]

Yep, and she better pray those two don’t kill someone before they’re captured.

[Rodamala]

She should have just  bought a Miyata  gotten a wrist tattoo.

[wideawake]

If she actually drove the getaway car like she agreed to, they would have found her enormous corpse in the trunk of her car, parked at some rest stop somewhere.

If her friends kill anybody else instead of her, she should be charged with murder as an accessory before the fact.

[jazusamo]

Agreed, she would be dead by now. She will be charged with murder if they kill anyone in my view.

[dragnet2]

This is industrial strength stupidity.

I’m hearing this prison employee’s husband is possibly a suspect as well.

Stupidity beyond belief. She had a state government job, likely with those tax paid gold plated government benefits and she just trashes her life. Monkey brain action.

Bad decision would be the understatement of the year in this case.

[The Ghost of FReepers Past]

Did she love the dismemberer or the other guy? I sure hope they don’t end up murdering someone else.

I wonder how Charles Manson’s new wife is doing.

The whole world has gone nuts.