Why an Upstate NY Prisoner With a History of Escape Foiled His Latest

[Borealis]

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[QUOTE]The plan sounds ingenious.

Remove two small security screws and combine them to create a tool to remove heavy bolts. Loosen wires to disable an electronic sensor. Fashion water-soaked bedsheets and the bunk-bed ladder into a tourniquet-like device; use it to pull open a hole in a woven steel grate. Train to get guards used to seeing you pace your cell at night wearing a hat, with a towel around your neck; then build a standing dummy facing the toilet so they don’t realize you’re gone until it’s too late.

Those were a few of the basics of an inmate’s scheme to escape from the Special Housing Unit at New York State’s Five Points Correctional Facility, a maximum-security prison. But instead of using it to break out, the inmate had a different idea — inform his jailers.

He had his girlfriend tell the authorities that he would reveal his plan in exchange for a few privileges: an extra visit each week; the ability to receive food packages and take photos with his girlfriend and her 6-year-old daughter.

Prison officials had reason to listen: He is David Sweat. In the summer of 2015, he and another inmate, Richard W. Matt, engineered an escape from the Clinton Correctional Facility in rural Dannemora and then led the authorities on a three-week deep-woods chase that riveted the nation, attracted intense scrutiny to security lapses and abuses in state prisons and embarrassed Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo.

Mr. Matt was eventually shot and killed and Mr. Sweat, now 37, shot and wounded. He later pleaded guilty to charges stemming from the episode and had a sentence of three to seven years added to his original life term for murder. Eventually, he found himself in the Special Housing Unit at Five Points, where he was confined in his cell for 23 hours a day.[/QUOTE]

[Native Hunter]

Might wanna clarify that this is Upstate New York in the title

[Borealis]

I edited the title but it's not changing.