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Meals. they were dancing. they were watching tv. all kinds of things. nothing like a prison is supposed to be. >> when you said that two of the watch towers was unmanned, adam that is so surprising but they must have been unmanned quite a bit for these men to know that that would be the case when they were escaping. right? this had to be a regular thing. >> reporter: we don't know if they knew they were unmanned, but you could see certain rules that were in place that were changing. they weren't checking them in terms of checking their heads in the cell. they weren't shining lights in the cell...

100 years and this doesn't happen. they kind of get complacent and figure nothing's going to happen they're all locked in. >> what is the allure? apparently matt's paintings. he wanted to paint and gave them to palmer and joyce mitchell. why did this value this stuff so much? >> i haven't seen it. is it any good? i don't know. >> is it any good? i don't know. should they be taking ingifts from inmates? >> their do. i can't think of any rule that says they're not supposed to. i'm sure there is. >> let's talk about the catwalk behind the cell. >> uh-huh. >> in the honor block, do inmates, were t...

Happen. they kind of get complacent and figure nothing's going to happen, they're all locked in. >> what is the allure? apparently matt's paintings. he wanted to paint and gave them to palmer and joyce mitchell. why did this value this stuff so much? >> i haven't seen it. is it any good? i don't know. >> is it any good? i don't know. should they be taking gifts from inmates? >> their do. i can't think of any rule that says they're not supposed to. i'm sure there is. >> let's talk about the catwalk behind the cell. >> uh-huh. >> in the honor block, do inmates, were they allowed to go in the cat...

Tighten up that operation in dannemora, especially the way these honor block has got these killers. one is a cop killer and the other guy is known to have killed two people and dismembered one. pretty verbs guys. now, what happens is in prison, as you know, you're treated based on your behavior in prison, but you also have to be formulated in how dangerous and vicious you are. and, you know, sometimes the corrections officers and commanders, you know, need freshening up, too. they need a new -- a new commander, a new captain or what ever and change those, keep those rules right. i mean, this d...

>> what is? what is sensationalism? >> everybody is sleeping on the job. >> how many guys are on that cell block at a time looking after the honor block. if one guy is asleep it's a liability, no? >> absolutely it's a liability. there's no way that should be happening, not at all. it will take two people to be able to safely do rounds. usually you have one officer walking and another at the end watching him. so nothing can happen to him while he is out and walking. >> i want to talk more about what we are learning from gene palmer the other guard under arrest. he gave a statement to police dur...