David Sweat masterminded prison break, official says

The superintendent of the prison where two killers broke out has been placed on leave along with his security chief and 10 others staff members amid an internal investigation into how the inmates pulled off the daring escape, a state official said Tuesday.

According to CNN, David Sweat and Richard Matt didn’t just pull off a grandiose prison break, they  did it twice. And through it all, Sweat was the mastermind or at least that’s what he’s telling investigators, a local district attorney said.

From his hospital bed in Albany, Sweat is revealing more details about the New York prison that seems to baffle almost everyone except himself.

Sweat revealed that the plot to break out of Clinton Correctional Facility actually started in January, Clinton County District Attorney Andrew Wylie said. After five months of strategizing, Sweat and Matt made a practice run. One night before prison tailor Joyce Mitchell was supposed to meet them at a manhole, Sweat and Matt escaped from their cells, a New York state official said.

She has been arrested and charged with promoting prison contraband and criminal facilitation. Another Employee, Gene Palmer, is accused of taking the meat to the inmates. He’s charged with promoting dangerous prison Contraband, two accounts of destroying evidence and one count of official misconduct.

The probe further extends far beyond Mitchell and Palmer, and well beyond the escape. Three members of the prison’s executive team, along with nine security staff employees, have been placed on paid administrative leave as part of the review of the escape, said the New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision.

Superintendent Steven Racette and Deputy Superintendent Stephen Brown are among the executives on leave; a state official told CNN on Tuesday. The other is First Superintendent Donald Quinn, according to a source familiar with the investigation.

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