Right now. Announcer this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. Reporting tonight from washington. Good evening. You may have thought youd heard it all regarding the prison escape and manhunt involving two killers last month in new york. But it turns out there was a lot more. Today as Joyce Mitchell, the prison worker who helped them bust out, appeared in court to plead guilty to her crimes. Nbc news obtained the detailed, at times salacious and eyeopening statements she made to state police about the plot the supplies the weapons and the plan to kill her husband the night of the escape. Nbcs john yang was in court today in upstate new york. Reporter with a tearful signature, Joyce Mitchell accepted a plea deal today, admitting she smuggled hacksaw blades, drill bits chisels, gloves, says glasses with lights and other tools into the prison for convicted killers richard matt and who, the d. A. Says used them to escape. Shes been very anxious, depressed, remorseful for what she did. Repo
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