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                Tools Hidden in Meat Helped NY Prisoners Escape

   by Associated Press

   Authorities say the prison employee charged with helping two murderers
   escape from a New York prison smuggled tools to them by hiding the
   items in frozen hamburger meat.

   Clinton County District Attorney Andrew Wiley has told reporters that
   Joyce Mitchell told investigators she put hacksaw blades and a
   screwdriver in the meat, then placed it in a refrigerator in the tailor
   shop where she worked at Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora.

   Wiley says a corrections officer brought the meat to David Sweat and
   Richard Matt, who were housed in a section of the maximum-security
   prison where inmates are allowed to cook their own meals. The DA says
   the guard didn't know the tools were inside the meat. He has been
   placed on paid leave.

   Sweat and Matt used power tools to make their escape June 6 and remain
   at large Wednesday.

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