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There is no reason that he should have been around an honor block. prison is prison. it's not supposed to be a nice place to be. when you have heard over the last three weeks about the types of accommodations given to these people particularly given matt's history, it's abominable that this happened. it's arrogance on the part of the department of corrections. clinton had never been broken out of therefore it's never going to happen. matt has, you know just an attitude. i will give you one example. there was a photograph that the new york daily news printed, a polaroid of matt in the elmira co...

Relationship, and that's developed some strange traditions like the north yard, this now kind of infamous area of the prison where inmates are allocated little chunks are turf. they're called courts, that they get to sort of govern themselves. when you stand there and look at it, it's these vast areas, looks like almost a giant tailgate party. this is also a facility where gang activity has long influenced the life behind bars, that sort of shapes what happens in different parts of the prison. you have things like this honor block where these two inmates were housed. that's one of the ways tha...

Contact with them. she allowed them to use her cell phone and got them the tools, which may have been the foundation to set up the plan for them to escape. so there are a lot of moving parts to the whole thing, and we want to limit -- we don't want to eliminate all the privileges but certainly limit the privileges of the worst of the worst. they certainly shouldn't have been on the honor block. they shouldn't have had civilian clothing to be able to assimilate and blend into the -- >> right. another idea that is out there is implanting gps tracking devices in inmates' bodies. are you for that?...

Was confronted. he was found 16 miles north of the place where richard matt was captured two days earlier. no word from investigators on when sweat and matt may have broken apart and whether or not sweat was with matt at the time he was killed. john and christine. >> and dannemora, new york home of the prison residents cheered. residents breathed a sigh of relief after sleeping with a gun handy. as their lives go back to normal david sweat's life, will change permanently. >> privileges limited. no more honor block. no more freedom of working in a tailor shop. he will be in 24/7 lockdown for re...

Obviously. 23 out of 24 hours a day in solitary confinement, isolation? >> i think you do with him what should have been done prior to the security compromise. he should be in a situation where he has very limited access to resources, very limited access to other inmates, and certainly very limited access to guards and staff. and there's got to be some checks and balances in place. >> what do you do with them what do you think they need to do with him? he's not going to be in honor block anymore. >> no. >> he's not going to have all this free deposit he used to have in the good old days from h...