There was a tremendous amount of misinformation out there a tremendous amount of speculation, and it troubled me.Īs the escape progressed, the misinformation intensified. I was seeing that the media was getting it wrong. as a local municipal judge, I was getting information coming in from law enforcement as the escape unfolded. The Crime Report : What drew you to write this book?Ĭharles Gardner: It was a combination of my experience with the New York State Department of Corrections, of being a local and having this escape unfold in my backyard. The full conversation can be viewed here on YouTube. The transcript below has been condensed and edited. In a conversation with The Crime Report, Gardner, who is also a former municipal judge, discusses how budget cutbacks created security flaws in the prison, why sensational reporting by the media complicated the search, and how correctional guards have been the victim of unfair stereotypes. Gardner offers not only a bitter condemnation of how state officials and the media handled the story, but a wider critique of New York State’s correctional system. In the just-published, Dannemora: Two Escaped Killers, And The Largest Manhunt Ever In New York State, Charles A. Now, a former senior correctional officer who watched the drama unfold in his “backyard” has weighed in with his own version of the story. Revelations that an affair with one of the Clinton correctional officers had facilitated their escape led to an investigation by embarrassed state officials, the conviction of two guards (Joyce Mitchell and Gene Palmer), two television movies, several books, and a seven-part TV miniseries. The second, David Sweat, was taken into custody two days later after another shootout.īut the made-for-Hollywood story was only just beginning. The hunt ended when one of the escapees, Richard Matt, was fatally gunned down by U.S.Border Patrol agents near the Canadian border. ![]() For the next three weeks, the manhunt became national news as hundreds of police tracked them through the rugged Adirondack wilderness of upstate New York. On June 6, 2015, two convicted killers escaped from the Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora, N.Y., through a tunnel they had painstakingly built.
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