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>> our thanks to jason carroll. a stunning shake-up in prison leadership. three top clinton correctional officials are now on paid leave, along with nine members of the security staff. we are also hearing from the brother of the sheriff's deputy murdered by david sweat. he is furious at all of the privileges that sweat had in the prison's honor block. >> we were told he would look at cells, the cell the whole time. and that is all he would ever do is look at a cell, look at walls and come out for half an hour a day, you know, and put in a cage like a dog, which he is. he was able to use comp...

Furious at all of the privileges that sweat had in the prison's honor block. >> we were told he would look at cells, the cell the whole time. and that is all he would ever do is look at a cell, look at walls and come out for half an hour a day, you know, and put in a cage like a dog, which he is. he was able to use computer and talk to his friends and relatives and have people come and see him. that really ate us up on that. >> the lawyer for joyce mitchell is ecstatic the manhunt is over and no harm came to any other person. she is now in jail helping matt and sweat escape. her attorney steve...

Being a number of houses in that area, that it might not be a good spot to exit from. so they located a manhole in between that manhole and the tunnel system. >> it certainly says a lot about security in the honor block and the prison itself. the question is, 12 people who had the duty of keeping this sort of thing from happening, how did they let this happen? they were put on forced leave including the summit and his deputy. and that's not all. we're also learning how long in the making and digging this escape may actually have been. what have you heard about how long they were doing this? >>...

It's tough to get the spokesman from albany to say anything about what happens in there. fortunately now people will speak out because of this. >> so lose the honor block and what other thing? >> lose the honor block, then - you have visiting rooms. they need to be more secure. they need to be non-contact. there's no reason for an inmate's family to pass any contraband to them whatsoever. they need glass, they need a telephone to talk on and it will eliminate 95% of the contraband. >> because some of the fears are they may have been able to even pass heroin in that visiting room when a spouse ...

>> thank you, as always for being all over the story. now we turn to arthur roderick, spent quarter center hunting convicts. with the marshal service. put us in context, how does the jailbreak and the details fit in to how these things usually go down? >> i mean it -- as a criminal investigator, as a deputy u.s. marshal, escape cases always are the most interesting. and when you compare this all the way back to the alcatraz escape, it -- it does have a lot of similarities to a lot of the escape that is have occurred over that 50-plus years. i mean you have got everything in this case. you ha...