There hasn’t been a prison escape in New York since 2015, but the state has struggled with other security issues, like ...

Ten years after an Upstate New York prison break captivated the world, the cop who captured fugitive David Sweat is recounting how he took down one half of the dangerous duo who escaped a ...

RELATED: New mini-series debuts about prison break from Dannemora Convicted killers Richard Matt and David Sweat broke out of the Clinton correctional facility in Dannemora by cutting a hole in ...

Jun. 7—DANNEMORA — From the beginning, the escape from Clinton Correctional Facility by David Sweat and Richard Matt has been described "like something out of a movie." The story was ripe for ...

New photos show Joyce Mitchell living a bleak, reclusive life in upstate New York nearly 10 years to the day after she helped Richard Matt and David Sweat escape from Clinton Correctional Facility.

Schenectady — June 6th marks 10 years since the Dannemora prison breakout at Clinton Correctional Facility, an event which triggered a weeks-long manhunt, national news coverage and prison reform.

The 2015 escape led to more advanced security protocols at Clinton Correctional Facility. A year after the escape, the inspector general blamed "systemic failures" for the breakout.

Richard W. Matt, 48, was serving 25 years to life for murder and David Sweat, 34, was serving life without parole for murder in the maximum-security Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora.

Former FBI agent Scott Duffey suggests Orleans Parish Jail staff likely aided the recent 10-person escape, as authorities investigate possible insider assistance.

The 10 inmates broke out of the New Orleans jail at about 1 a.m. on May 16. Nearly a day later, three had been recaptured.

In two 45-minute jailhouse interviews last week at Bedford Hills Correctional Facility in Westchester, a seething Joyce “Tillie” Mitchell denied she ever had consensual sex with the convicted ...

Escape at Dannemora is a dramatized retelling of a real-life prison break from the maximum security Clinton Correctional Facility in 2015. The show features a sprawling cast but focuses on three ...