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Being transported to buffalo, new york. his family has decided to claim the body. all this while authorities and law enforcement are seeing if they can actually believe what david sweat is saying. and so many changes in the prison behind me. those changes were instituted the day after richard matt and david sweat escaped. this morning a major shake-up behind these prison walls. clinton county correctional assigning a new superintendent along with new rules, including weekly cell wall inspections, random bed checks and new gates placed inside the tunnels inmates richard matt and david sweat use...

Are allowed to have and what they are not allowed to have. what they are allowed to have on their cell bars, cell doors, on the walls, anything like that. so when you first walk in a cell you're looking for compliance with those basic rules and you're looking for any possibility of contraband and where the contraband can be held. typically, you don't really allow anything on the cell walls because the reason people put up large pictures on a cell wall is to hide a hole that they have made in the wall behind the picture. so you don't want these pictures on the wall. when you have something cove...

Superintendent stephen who led andrew cuomo on a tour of how the convicts broke free. david sweat is saying they used hacksaws not power tools to cut through the cell wall then into the steam pipe. chris, hacksaws are going to be a lot less noisy than power tools. >> that's true. thank you very much. the question is, what's next for the escaped convict, sweat. his time in the hospital is nearing an end. let's get to sara with part of the story live at albany medical center sara? >> reporter: good morning. david sweat continues to recover and continues to talk which is good for authorities. he'...

>> one example of random security checks is officers would walk around with rubber mallets and knock on our cell bars and cell wall. you regularly got pat-frisked. tlrp routine cell chececks. at any moment, you could be frisked or made to go through a metal detech nor. >> so, do you think the guardings had to be aware of what was goirng on in these cells? >> what ends up happening, after correction officers work around inmates, they become complacent.

They don't understand. i've got problems on the street. >> one week after what staff described as a suicide attempt, maricopa county inmate manuel martinez has undergone a psychological evaluation and has been transferred from a padded safe cell back to his own cell in the high-security unit. >> you were having a rough day that day, right? >> real rough. >> what was going on, your girl? >> yeah, just family problems. i was trying to get a call in and they weren't hearing me and i was just trying to basically let them know i was going through some things if i could talk to a counselor for a fiv...