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Historic NY

(37,463 posts)
Wed Jun 24, 2015, 09:12 PM Jun 2015

2nd prison worker charged in connection with inmates' escape

Source: CNN

A corrections officer from the Clinton Correctional Facility in New York has been arrested and charged with promoting dangerous prison contraband, destroying evidence and official misconduct, Andrew Brockway, an attorney for the man, told CNN on Wednesday.

Officer Gene Palmer, who is on paid leave, allegedly took frozen meat embedded with smuggled tools to the inmates' cell area in the now-closed honor block, Clinton County District Attorney Andrew Wylie said Wednesday. Wylie also said Palmer escorted the men into the catwalk area behind their cells to fix electrical breakers so the inmates could use hot plates to cook food. Authorities have said Matt and Sweat used the catwalks during their June 6 escape.

Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2015/06/24/us/new-york-prison-break/index.html

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2nd prison worker charged in connection with inmates' escape (Original Post) Historic NY Jun 2015 OP
I was just about to post this same link - I wonder - anyone know why LiberalElite Jun 2015 #1
I think I heard that the woman who was helping them DeadLetterOffice Jun 2015 #2
Yes. I read that but she took that hamburger out of LiberalElite Jun 2015 #6
I also wondered about that - n/t Justice Jun 2015 #9
"who is on paid leave" PSPS Jun 2015 #3
This person hasn't been convicted of a crime. CANDO Jun 2015 #10
If I am not mistaken - one of the prisoners worked in the kitchen. jwirr Jun 2015 #4
Everyone should watch the video. Beauregard Jun 2015 #5
WTF NY prisons? moondust Jun 2015 #7
The Inmates in the tailor shop where the pair worked help make undergarments, Historic NY Jun 2015 #8
I don't know much about NY. moondust Jun 2015 #11

LiberalElite

(14,691 posts)
1. I was just about to post this same link - I wonder - anyone know why
Wed Jun 24, 2015, 09:14 PM
Jun 2015

there would be a freezer in the tailor shop? That's where the meat came from.

DeadLetterOffice

(1,352 posts)
2. I think I heard that the woman who was helping them
Wed Jun 24, 2015, 09:19 PM
Jun 2015

worked in the tailor shop and was smuggling tools in to the prison in frozen hamburger. (no idea how or why)

LiberalElite

(14,691 posts)
6. Yes. I read that but she took that hamburger out of
Wed Jun 24, 2015, 09:31 PM
Jun 2015

in a freezer in the tailor shop. Why do they need a freezer in a tailor shop? I'm just curious.

PSPS

(13,647 posts)
3. "who is on paid leave"
Wed Jun 24, 2015, 09:27 PM
Jun 2015

Another example of how our culture rewards for bad behavior -- the customary paid vacation.

 

CANDO

(2,068 posts)
10. This person hasn't been convicted of a crime.
Thu Jun 25, 2015, 01:27 AM
Jun 2015

He's only been charged. It's called due process.

 

Beauregard

(376 posts)
5. Everyone should watch the video.
Wed Jun 24, 2015, 09:31 PM
Jun 2015

A former inmate says that Mitchell and Sweat would disappear into a closet in the tailor shop about 4 times a week, often for as long as 1/2 hour. Start at 1:23.

http://ht.cdn.turner.com/cnn/big//us/2015/06/24/joyce-mitchell-relationship-david-sweat-dnt-todd-tsr.cnn_cnn_iphone_cell.mp4

moondust

(20,032 posts)
7. WTF NY prisons?
Thu Jun 25, 2015, 12:29 AM
Jun 2015

A guy kills and DISMEMBERS his boss, is convicted and goes to prison, later gets to live in the honor block and wear civilian clothes, works in a sewing shop and apparently has sex regularly with a prison employee, then escapes with the help of possibly more than one prison employee? What the ever lovin' holy fuck is going on there?

Incidentally, is the main function of the sewing shop to provide cheap prison labor to some outside companies?

Historic NY

(37,463 posts)
8. The Inmates in the tailor shop where the pair worked help make undergarments,
Thu Jun 25, 2015, 01:15 AM
Jun 2015

shirts, trousers and other clothing, including uniforms for correction officers.

http://www.timesunion.com/news/article/Dannemora-escapees-were-on-good-behavior-tier-6313865.php

Your thinking about Corcraft which makes things for institutions, state parks, local governments, etc.

http://www.corcraft.org/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/TopCategoriesDisplay?langId=-1&storeId=10001&catalogId=10051

moondust

(20,032 posts)
11. I don't know much about NY.
Thu Jun 25, 2015, 01:28 AM
Jun 2015

Some states allow for-profit prison labor which may be driving for-profit prisons and massive incarceration rates.

Prison Labor For Profit

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