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Privileges like hot plates and refrigerators in cells. here prisoners are allowed to congregate for hours with fellow inmates which may have given matt and sweat the time they needed to plot their escape. >> you have one person you can completely trust and you'll do everything. it is called go toe to toe with, back to back, knife to knife. it is one person if someone pops them off you will hold them down. i believe that's the relationship they had after their cells got moved together. >> reporter: prisoners in the honor block are allowed to wear civilian clothing instead of traditional prison ...

>> reporter: fascinating stuff. the new york times is reporting david sweat wander around the tunnels night after night beginning this winter. he would leave his cell every night on the hunt for the skpap route confident the guards wouldn't miss him because as you said they were sleeping. he would disappear between the hours of 11:30 p.m. and be back by 5:00 in the morning. he somehow rigged a fan underground to cool himself reportedly using electricity anderson from the tunnel's lights. >> and there is also new information about when david sweat actually got serious about escaping. >> reporte...

Block is unfwlooefblbelievable to me. >> he slowly began chipping away at the prison's outer wall with a sledge hammer. the prisoners cut through a cooling steam pipe with a hacksaw. the convicted killers relished the possible legend of their plan even joking about it bragging that while it took shawshank redemption 20 years to break it it would take them only ten. >> apparently they did it in just five months. they had plans to go to mexico. we know that was thwarted when joyce mitchell didn't show up. the two men were ultimately found right near the canadian border. a source briefed on the i...

The complacency on the part of the guards in that honor block is just unbelievable to me. that he was able to have free run back there in the catacombs and figure out by trial and error how to get out. >> exactly to that point. >> i don't think he was going down there every night either. him or matt had to be going back and forth taking turns. when do you sleep in they? they work during the day. were they in the catacombs every night? i'm not so sure about that. the fact is that sweat, conversations with mat, we can't corroborate. matt is dead now. everything he is saying to us we have to beli...

11:30 and 5:00? what's going on? apparently it appears the guards were sleeping. the amount of noise he had to be making with a sledgehammer -- he said he used a sledgehammer on that pipe and make that noise for a month trying to get through the pipe with just a hacksaw, that's incredible. >> incredible. arthur to harry's point, impossible to believe they still pulled this off. is it -- it's possible that david sweat, that he had been roaming the tombs for months without any of the prison guards noticing. everyone at this point is believing they're asleep. do you believe it so many months no o...