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Some were transferred to other facilities without due process. and the claim that they were beaten during interrogations to try to get more information about the escape of richard matt and david sweat. one inmate telling "the new york times" his account of what happened writing, quote, an officer jumps and grabs me by my throat, lifts me out of my chair, slams my head into a pipe along the wall. then he starts punching me in the face. one officer pointed to a plastic bag hanging on some pipes an...

Together. you may have heard of honor blocks. convicted killers enmatt and sweat, escaped from one in new york in june. honor block was shut down across the country the so called honor yard at california state prison has been turned into a unique place for those seeking self improvement during a life sentence. >> this is it. if you look around at my surrounds, which are a stones throw either way. this is it. this is all i have. what can i do with my life? what can i do in here? should i allow wh...

As the deputy struggled for his gun, sweat jumped into another vehicle and ran over the deputy, dragging him with the car across the parking lot. he was still alive when one of the other suspects then charged out of the woods, picked up the deputys gun, which he had dropped, and shot him, point blank, twice in the face. sweat was charged after police found a hand drawn map and sketch of the fireworks store with sweats fingerprint on it. now sweat was also heading to prison, where he would meet r...

In the stomach. reportedly his small intestine and a kidney. as the. sweat jumped into another vehicle and ran over the deputy. dragging him with the car across the parking lot. he was still alive when one of the other suspects then charged out of the woods. picked up the deputys gun which he had dropped and shot him. point blank twice in the face. sweat was charged after police found a hand drawn map and sketch of the fireworks store with sweats finger print on it. now sweat was also heading to...

Tarsia in the stomach reportedly striking his tack and kidney. sweat jumped in another vehicle and ran over the deputy, running over him dragging him in the car across the lot. one of the other suspects charged out of the woods, picked up the deputys gin and shot him point blank, twice in the face. sweat was charged after police found a hand drawn map and sketch of the fireworks store with sweats fingerprint on it. now sweat was was also heading to prison where he would meet richard matt for the...

Privileges like hot plates and refrigerators in cells. here prisoners are allowed to congregate for hours with fellow inmates which may have given matt and sweat the time they needed to plot their escape. >> you have one person you can completely trust and youll do everything. it is called go toe to toe with, back to back, knife to knife. it is one person if someone pops them off you will hold them down. i believe thats the relationship they had after their cells got moved together. >> reporter:...

>> reporter: fascinating stuff. the new york times is reporting david sweat wander around the tunnels night after night beginning this winter. he would leave his cell every night on the hunt for the skpap route confident the guards wouldnt miss him because as you said they were sleeping. he would disappear between the hours of 11:30 p.m. and be back by 5:00 in the morning. he somehow rigged a fan underground to cool himself reportedly using electricity anderson from the tunnels lights. >> and th...

Block is unfwlooefblbelievable to me. >> he slowly began chipping away at the prisons outer wall with a sledge hammer. the prisoners cut through a cooling steam pipe with a hacksaw. the convicted killers relished the possible legend of their plan even joking about it bragging that while it took shawshank redemption 20 years to break it it would take them only ten. >> apparently they did it in just five months. they had plans to go to mexico. we know that was thwarted when joyce mitchell didnt sh...

The complacency on the part of the guards in that honor block is just unbelievable to me. that he was able to have free run back there in the catacombs and figure out by trial and error how to get out. >> exactly to that point. >> i dont think he was going down there every night either. him or matt had to be going back and forth taking turns. when do you sleep in they? they work during the day. were they in the catacombs every night? im not so sure about that. the fact is that sweat, conversatio...

11:30 and 5:00? whats going on? apparently it appears the guards were sleeping. the amount of noise he had to be making with a sledgehammer -- he said he used a sledgehammer on that pipe and make that noise for a month trying to get through the pipe with just a hacksaw, thats incredible. >> incredible. arthur to harrys point, impossible to believe they still pulled this off. is it -- its possible that david sweat, that he had been roaming the tombs for months without any of the prison guards not...