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Manhunt. >> reporter: when guzman the notorious kingpin was arrested in february of last year after a 13-year manhunt, mexican authorities bragged, they were cracking down hard on major drug traffickers. and promised he would never escape from their maximum security prison. but he did escape in a daring highly sophisticated scheme involving a mile long tunnel beneath the prison wall a major embarrassment for the mexican government. >> they have no control over the powerful drug cartels that operate in their country. and they have no control over the system of justice and incarceration. >> repo...

House, low-lying house. not fully built. it doesn't look like much. standing alone. and from there they dug down authorities say, and then went across that field under the field past that big tree and kept going and going and going until they finally, about a mile away, got to the prison wall. went under the prison wall and somehow had the wherewithal, the knowledge, the equipment to come up exactly in joaquin guzman's cell. in fact, in the shower stall in the cell where the cameras that covered that area didn't show the area. they knew all that. they came up just like that. very very precise....

Time and revealing key details about how security broke down at clinton correctional facility in upstate new york. sweat says he and richard matt actually practiced their escape the night before they broke out. he says they reached a manhole but decided that manhole was not isolated enough so they picked a different one on the night of the real escape. let's get more now from national correspondent jason carroll. >> reporter: david sweat's condition has been upgraded to fair and he is telling investigators a lot, filling in many details about the escape, telling investigators that he was the, ...

Condition has been upgraded to fair and he is telling investigators a lot, filling in many details about the escape, telling investigators that he was the, quote/unquote, mastermind of the whole escape plan and that falls in step from what we are hearing from a source who tells me that david sweat had a reputation at the prison of being somewhat technically minded and the smarter of the two. he also said they did a dry run the night before and they had been planning this up to six months. they only used those hacksaw blades to cut a hole in the prison wall and through a pipe to lead them to fr...

Mastermind of the whole escape plan and falls in step from what we are hearing from a source who tells me that david sweat had a reputation at the prison of being somewhat technically minded and the smarter of the two. he said they did a dry run the night before and they had been planning this up to six months. they only used those hacksaw blades to cut a hole in the prison wall and through a pipe to lead them to freedom. he also talked about who was involved and who was not involved meaning joyce mitchell he says was involved. she was supposed to be the get-away driver. but gene palmer that p...