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Joyce Mitchell, N.Y. prison worker, pleads guilty in escape of 2 killers
The Washington Times ^ | July 28, 2015 | Michael Hill - AP

Posted on 07/28/2015 9:57:46 AM PDT by jazusamo

PLATTSBURGH, N.Y. (AP) — A northern New York prison worker admitted Tuesday to smuggling hacksaw blades in frozen hamburger meat to two killers who later broke out and spent more than two weeks on the run.

Joyce Mitchell, a tailor shop instructor at Clinton Correctional Facility, wept as she pleaded guilty to charges of first-degree promoting prison contraband, a felony, and misdemeanor fourth-degree criminal facilitation.

Mitchell, 51, faces a sentence of 2⅓ years to 7 years in prison under terms of a plea deal with prosecutors. A sentencing date was not announced. Her lawyer said his client won’t be able to post the bail set by the judge at $100,000 cash or $200,000 bond.

Mitchell was jailed shortly after the elaborately staged June 6 escape of Richard Matt and David Sweat. Matt was shot and killed by searchers June 26, about 30 miles west of the prison; Sweat was captured near the Canadian border two days later and sent to another prison.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: davidsweat; guiltyplea; joycemitchell; newyork; prisonbreak; richardmatt
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1 posted on 07/28/2015 9:57:46 AM PDT by jazusamo
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To: jazusamo

And Obama wants to put 50 Gitmo cruds in some of these high security prisons.


2 posted on 07/28/2015 9:59:09 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: jazusamo

She’ll be needing some marriage counseling, too.


3 posted on 07/28/2015 9:59:16 AM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: jazusamo

No comment from her for the press? I’m surprised.


4 posted on 07/28/2015 10:00:08 AM PDT by Steely Tom (Vote GOP: A Slower Handbasket)
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To: Pearls Before Swine

LOL! I think she’s beyond help in that category.


5 posted on 07/28/2015 10:01:46 AM PDT by jazusamo (0bama to go 'full-Mussolini' after elections: Mark Levin....and the turkey has.)
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To: Pearls Before Swine

I don’t think her husband will be tying any yellow ribbons around the old oak tree any time soon....................


6 posted on 07/28/2015 10:01:52 AM PDT by Red Badger (Man builds a ship in a bottle. God builds a universe in the palm of His hand.............)
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To: jazusamo

Mrs. Soffel only did a couple of years too.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_and_Ed_Biddle


7 posted on 07/28/2015 10:04:20 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: jazusamo

Rumor has it she is requesting a men’s prison.


8 posted on 07/28/2015 10:05:07 AM PDT by bray (Cruz to the White House)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

Ha, the wardens wife. These women that pull this stuff have more than a few screws loose.


9 posted on 07/28/2015 10:07:59 AM PDT by jazusamo (0bama to go 'full-Mussolini' after elections: Mark Levin....and the turkey has.)
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To: jazusamo

She’s lost her job. She’s lost her marriage. Lost her pensijn.

All for a bit of romp in a jail cell.


10 posted on 07/28/2015 10:09:35 AM PDT by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults)
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To: Pearls Before Swine

TONY ORLANDO AND DAWN
“Tie A Yellow Ribbon (’Round The Ole Oak Tree)”
(Irwin Levine and L. Russell Brown)

I’m comin’ home, I’ve done my time
Now I’ve got to know what is and isn’t mine
If you received my letter telling you I’d soon be free
Then you’ll know just what to do
If you still want me
If you still want me

Whoa, tie a yellow ribbon ‘round the ole oak tree
It’s been three long years
Do ya still want me (still want me)
If I don’t see a ribbon ‘round the ole oak tree
I’ll stay on the bus
Forget about us
Put the blame on me
If I don’t see a yellow ribbon ‘round the ole oak tree

Bus driver, please look for me
‘cause I couldn’t bear to see what I might see
I’m really still in prison
And my love, she holds the key
A simple yellow ribbon’s what I need to set me free
I wrote and told her please

Whoa, tie a yellow ribbon ‘round the ole oak tree
It’s been three long years
Do ya still want me (still want me)
If I don’t see a ribbon ‘round the ole oak tree
I’ll stay on the bus
Forget about us
Put the blame on me
If I don’t see a yellow ribbon ‘round the ole oak tree

[Instrumental Interlude]

Now the whole damned bus is cheerin’
And I can’t believe I see
A hundred yellow ribbons ‘round the ole oak tree

I’m comin’ home, mmm, mmm

(Tie a ribbon ‘round the ole oak tree)
(Tie a ribbon ‘round the ole oak tree)
(Tie a ribbon ‘round the ole oak tree)

(Tie a ribbon ‘round the ole oak tree)
(Tie a ribbon ‘round the ole oak tree)
(Tie a ribbon ‘round the ole oak tree)


11 posted on 07/28/2015 10:10:18 AM PDT by Red Badger (Man builds a ship in a bottle. God builds a universe in the palm of His hand.............)
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To: jazusamo

7 years minimum.....for pure stupidity....


12 posted on 07/28/2015 10:11:27 AM PDT by cherry
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13 posted on 07/28/2015 10:13:01 AM PDT by jazusamo (0bama to go 'full-Mussolini' after elections: Mark Levin....and the turkey has.)
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To: Red Badger
that song gives me goose bumps...thinking of this countries reaction to our Iran hostages coming home...

and today?....well, we just give billions to the same Iranian crude that captured our people...

14 posted on 07/28/2015 10:13:41 AM PDT by cherry
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To: jazusamo

Why no felony murder charge? After all, her felonious escape assistance led to the death of one of the criminals.


15 posted on 07/28/2015 10:19:40 AM PDT by JimRed (Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed & water the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS NOW & FOREVER!)
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To: cherry

7 years for helping criminals escape into the US?

7 years for an act of love?

This surely bucks current trending of federal court rulings. I see a federal case against the state for civil rights violation of her Freedom to Conjugate and violation of the convicts’ Freedom to Trespass.


16 posted on 07/28/2015 10:22:49 AM PDT by Justa
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To: jazusamo

Hope your reckless pursuit of the Big O was worth it, honey.

17 posted on 07/28/2015 10:23:04 AM PDT by martin_fierro (< | :)~)
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To: JimRed

My thought as well. Not familiar with NY law on that maybe they don’t have one on the books.


18 posted on 07/28/2015 10:26:39 AM PDT by jazusamo (0bama to go 'full-Mussolini' after elections: Mark Levin....and the turkey has.)
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To: Red Badger

I can’t believe that schlocky song from my childhood morphed into a national tradition.


19 posted on 07/28/2015 10:33:33 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Buckeye McFrog

It was really a ‘national tradition’ before the song:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tie_a_Yellow_Ribbon_Round_the_Ole_Oak_Tree


20 posted on 07/28/2015 10:47:10 AM PDT by Red Badger (Man builds a ship in a bottle. God builds a universe in the palm of His hand.............)
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