Page 7 - Prison Workers News Today

Border. spotted walking along a rural road by sergeant jay cook who shot the convicted cop killer after he started running. >> he was just about at the tree line. if he would have got in that tree line, they probably wouldnt have got him. >> reporter: the takedown happening just 48 hours after matt was shot and killed by officers. >> this is the camper where matt was hiding. >> sweat claiming the two decided to separate just days earlier. >> sweat felt that matt was slowing him down, as a matter...

Good morning to you. im pamela brown in for carol costello. thank you so much for being here with us. this morning convicted killer david sweat is upgraded from critical condition, and investigators say hes revealing crucial details of the prison escape. the intricate planning and the scramble to improvise. prison employee joyce mitchell was plan a, but when she didnt show up with the getaway car, sweat and richard matt abandoned their plans to flee to mexico. with no plan b, they headed towar...

So lock. new york state police tell us they are now done interviewing sweat and have learned that he was fairly prepared to be on the run even describing him a survivalist who may have studied while he was in prison about how to pull this off. as rick reported, he was shot and captured in a field in constable, new york just about a mile and a half from the canadian border with a backpack full of canned foods, pop tarts transitter radio with batteries and even a compass. one thing that they want ...

Im pamela brown in for carol costello. thank you so much for being with us on this tuesday, a very busy tuesday. this morning convicted killer david sweat is upgraded from critical condition. he is revealing crucial details of the prison escape the sbi intricate planning and the scramble to impro-vise. and a possible heroin ring operating inside the prison. investigators believe there may have been a criminal network, inmates partnering with corrupt prison workers. we are covering all the angl...

Of sweat and matt was found deep in the tunnels underneath the prison where inmates cannot have access to. so the question is if there is a drug trafficking issue, could matt and sweat have been involved in it so they would get extra privileges that others did not. >> you raise an interesting point there. thank you so much. if prison workers were smuggling drugs to prisoners, what kind of role might matt and sweat have played in this. joining me now to discuss jonathan gilliam. thanks so much fo...

He has nothing to lose. hell spend the rest of his days behind bars. why would he even want to talk? >> part of who he is manipulative and being grandiose and a thrill-seeker. he by his own personality structure hes likely to talk and did i and ive talked to many individual who are zak psychopattic and what you do, i encourage them. you compliment them and tell them how impressed you are with them and how nobody else could have carried this off and even matt ended up being killed so you really a...

Two escaped inmates now accounted for, one shot and killed the other shot and captured. now the investigation shifts to building a case against the surviving convict and the prison workers accused of helping the men escape. lets bring in janine shapiro, host of "judge janine." always great to talk to you. >> how are you, harris? >> im great. i have two big questions. the death penalty abolished in 2007. these guys knew, judge, that no matter what they did, if they were put back in that prison no...

Of those super maxes. and the feds probably have a million things that they could use to pick up the case throughout this whole escape he must have broke some federal laws that they could jump in on but other than that, its a state case and he has to stay in the state system. i was in the federal system. i spent time in federal state and county. when i was in the federal system i could be sent anywhere in the united states. when i was in the state system you are relegated to the new york prison ...

Ended up in this field. they have publicly linked one or both of the fugitives to at least three cabins. they say they expect to find many more with signs of potential break-ins, places where these fugitives could have taken cover or grabbed resources. >> alexandra field on the scene for us thanks. theres breaking news. the fbi were now learning investigating possible crimes within that so-called maximum security clinton correctional facility, crimes that potentially go far beyond this escape ...

They found in the field. this proved to be true in the case certainly of richard matt and now of david sweat. >> david sweat 35 years old, serving life in prison for killing a sheriffs deputy has been caught. were told hes wounded. taken to a local hospital in upstate new york with some type of injuries. well see if he indeed will remain alive to potentially or not potentially tell authorities about how the prison break went down especially when you have two prison workers charged. go ahead. >> ...