Escape at Dannemora True Story
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Between June and July, the 23-day hunt for the criminals cost the New York State Police and the state Department of Corrections $23 million. After many leads, officials tracked down and killed Matt at Lake Titus in New York with three gunshots to the head on June 26. Fifteen miles north of this location and 30 miles from the Dannemora prison, they found and captured Sweat.
Mitchell and Palmer both plead guilty to helping the two convicts escape. Sweat, prior to pleading guilty himself, believed that he had a defence, which was rejected by the judge on his case.
"It was a matter of duress. Threats that were made upon him. That the circumstances that existed in Clinton Correctional Facility caused him to escape," Clinton County District Attorney Andrew Wylie said, explaining his defence.
The State Department of Corrections in New York sentenced Sweat to six years in solitary confinement at Five Points Correctional Facility in Romulus, New York.