Mitchell says she felt fearful that Matt would have her husband and family killed while he was on the run. By the time they returned, she writes, "the inmate would have been beaten, they would just close the gate and walk away laughing and joking."Īccused NJ Teacher Killer Extradited on 1st-Degree Murder Charge 2nd Suspect Still on Lam In her letter, Mitchell describes Matt as a "powerful inmate" who had such sway over prison guards that they would leave open for him the cells of other inmates he didn't like. Police documents show that Mitchell performed sexual acts on one of the men, sent X-rated selfies to the other, provided tools to aid the prisoners' escape and knew the duo planned to kill her husband. The escapees were forced to scrub plans to head to Mexico and instead ran away after emerging from a manhole near the prison. She told investigators she agreed to be their getaway driver before backing out after suffering a panic attack at the last minute. Mitchell admitted becoming close with the pair while she worked as an instructor in the prison tailor shop. Sweat was wounded and captured by a state trooper two days later. Matt was killed by a border agent June 26. The pair eluded more than 1,000 searchers who combed the thick woods and bogs of northern New York for much of the next three weeks. They crawled through an underground steam pipe and reached a street near the prison walls through a manhole. Officials said the convicts used tools to cut their way out of their adjacent cells and get into the catwalk between the cell block walls. Sweat was serving a sentence of life without parole for killing a sheriff's deputy in Broome County in 2002. Matt was serving 25 years to life for the killing and dismembering of his former boss. No one will ever know the remorse I feel for everything that happened due to my part in the Clinton Escape," Mitchell writes in the three-page letter from April. Annucci, I realize what I did was very wrong. Remorseful and tearful at her sentencing, her letter to Acting Department of Corrections Chief Anthony Annucci echoed the statements she previously made in the courtroom. Joyce Mitchell was sentenced to 2 1/3 to seven years in prison in September after pleading guilty to charges related to providing hacksaw blades and other tools to Richard Matt and David Sweat, who broke out of the Clinton Correctional Facility last June. The upstate New York prison guard who was sentenced to up to seven years in prison for her role in helping two convicted murderers escape from a maximum-security lockup is pleading for clemency in a handwritten letter obtained exclusively by NBC 4 New York.
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