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Authorities. deb feyerick joins me live now with more on the story and in washington, jeff dumas is a former sergeant at the clinton correctional facility. so talk to me a little bit about this news of a lockdown that we're just starting to hear about that had happened prior to the escape. were matt and sweat locked down as well? >> well, they weren't and that's one of the things under investigation. >> they were not? >> there was a prison riot about a week before this escape. about 30 inmates. it lasted less than a minute. there were no weapons that were found. but the problem is is that the ...

But it was written and sent before. in the letter he says i'm going to see you on the outside. i made you a promise, i'm going to stick with it. that is a new development. there's changes going on at the prison behind me. we want to show everybody, at this point, 13 employees were put on paid administrative leave. the cells in the prison are now inspected weekly by senior staff and the tunnels are inspected monthly, random checks of cells and the honor block that inmates work their years for has been eliminated. getting more information on those employees put on administrative leave. some were...

Contact with. the thing we can tell you about the prison riot is this happened just a week before richard matt and david sweat broke out of prison. it was a partial lockdown. the superintendent called for a full lockdown but headquarters in albany said no. there are reports that perhaps if the honor block had been searched people would have found this hole that they had cut in order to break out. but that's sort of 20/20 hind sight. so, again, very fascinating letter and a prison riot that could have been perhaps exposed this getaway. brianna? >> he wrote this letter to his daughter and yet we...

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Drugs or have been caught in the past. those are going to be screened to a point. again, with the amount of mail coming in there's no way to screen each and every single one. you can't read you cannot possibly read all that material. they will be opened up make sure there's no contraband no drugs, no razor blades. to read every word is impossible. >> it's interesting. he's a vicious killer on the outside. a dismemberer on the outside. on the inside he made it to the honor block. what you are saying is perhaps his behavior is exemplary and gave him the right to write things that may be suspicio...