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What kind of pills those were but that she ultimately destroyed them. she remains behind bars and now the surviving escapee, david sweat, is adjusting to a whole new kind of life in prison. he tunneled his way to short-lived short-lived freedom before a police sergeant took him down. now david sweat will be confined to a cell 23 hours a day at five points prison. 200 miles southwest of dannemora dannemora, life different than life on the honor block. >> unbreakable. really tough to break. we've tried everything. >> reporter: the maximum security facility built in 2000 was touted at the time fo...

District attorney, for joining us this morning. we know you have to make a case for the escape. escape ittleself is a low-level felony. your going ahead with it anyway why? >> we have to have some finalityanlinality here. there's never any closure on the actual original charges that sweat has and been convicted of murder. he's serving a life without parole sentence. we don't want a federal judge down the road to make a decision that something went wrong with that trial or that plea that he entered and overturn that conviction. but notwithstanding that we need to go forward with the escape char...

Stop. he made positive identification that it was, in fact inmate sweat. he engaged in a lengthy foot pursuit all the while commanding sweat to stop and at the final analysis before sweat could enter a wood line nearly a mile and a half before the canadian border we were concerned he took the necessary action. >> he had to know it was sweat for him to take the time to show due discretion. i think many would agree. do you think there's a chance at this point, what would you put the probability at you're going to get an ability to question sweat? >> we're very hopeful. i'm told he's talking a bi...

To throw off police tracking dogs. >> we had difficulty tracking. >> the dramatic capture comes 48 hours after matt arm with a shotgun was killed in a shootout with police. >> a first escape in over 100 years. but one escape is one too many. >> now david sweat was unarmed when he was captured. just to give you some perspective, he was about 16 miles away from where his partner richard matt was shot and killed on friday afternoon. he was about two miles south of the canadian border. he's now at this hospital right here behind me in albany being treated by trauma doctors, vascular surgeons. he's...

Albany new york. >> he'll be in basically 24/7 lock down for the rest of his life. >> this exclusive photo obtained by cnn moments after his capture shows sweat bloodied and in full camouflage garb. you can see a wound it his chest. >> i heard shots and ran out with my phone. >> sweat was spotted sunday afternoon by new york state police sergeant jay cook during a routine patrol less than two miles from the canadian border. >> he was alone when this happened. i said you go home tonight and tell your daughters that you're a hero. >> the fugitive was jogging along the road when cook spotted him....