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On June 6, 2015 two convicted murderers escaped from the maximum security prison at Dannemora. The search for David Sweat and Richard Matt fell under the…
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It captured the nation’s attention for nearly a month and kept everyone in Northern New York and Vermont on tenterhooks during the summer of 2015. On June…
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Today is the second anniversary of the end of one of the largest manhunts in New York history — when officials captured the second of two men who escaped…
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Playwright Lynn Nottage made history last month as the first woman to win two Pulitzer Prizes for Drama. Her play Sweat — her first to be produced on…
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The New York State Parole Board has unanimously denied former prison guard worker Joyce Mitchell’s bid for parole.Mitchell appeared before the board for…
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New York corrections officials say nine guards, officers and civilian employees at the Clinton Correctional prison in northern New York resigned or…
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Monday marks one year since New York’s North Country was upended by a massive manhunt for two escaped murderers. We look back at the 23-day search for…
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Convicted murderer David Sweat, who escaped from Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora, New York in June, setting off a 23-day manhunt, was back in…
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The surviving convict who escaped from the Clinton Correctional facility last June will not face charges in Franklin County for crimes he committed there…
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Payroll records suggest the hunt for two escaped killers in northern New York cost more than $1 million a day, with overtime costs alone for state…