Prison employee pleaded not guilty to aiding escape of two murderers

FoxNews.com ^ | une 13, 2015

[bob_denard]

The female prison employee at the center of an investigation into the escape of two killers pleaded not guilty Friday night to helping them flee the maximum security facility.

Prison tailor shop instructor Joyce Mitchell, 51, was arraigned on a felony charge of promoting prison contraband and misdemeanor count of criminal facilitation, authorities said.

Mitchell is accused of aiding in the escape of inmates David Sweat and Richard Matt from the Clinton Correctional Facility in upstate New York last week.

She entered the court room with her hands cuffed in front of her, clad jeans and a lime green top looking terrified. She did not speak. She was ordered held in jail on $100,000 cash bail or $200,000 bond on felony county and is due back in court Monday morning.

[BradyLS]

I’ve been out of the loop lately.

Am I right that this woman supplied these two with the tools they needed to break out and they did the work themselves to get from the inside to the outside?

My first thought, when the story broke, was that someone had to be working with plans of the facility from the outside to reach them on the inside.

[foreverfree]

Did this gal drive them to Canada, then lie about the panic attack? Someone in the comments on the site of Plattsburgh's Channel 5 (WPTZ.com) thinks so, "otherwise they would've caught them by now" (quoting approximately).

ff

[Some Fat Guy in L.A.]

Why does a prison need a “tailor shop instructor”? Sounds like a union featherbed job that drives up the cost of incarceration.