Female employee of N.Y. prison arrested in convict escape | Reuters

NEW YORK A female employee of an upstate New York prison has been arrested on charges that she helped two inmates stage a daring escape from the maximum security facility, New York State Police said on Friday. Joyce Mitchell, an industrial training supervisor at the Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora, is suspected of having smuggled contraband into the prison, where convicts Richard Matt and David Sweat were discovered missing last weekend, authorities said. Mitchell, 51, is charged with promoting prison contraband and criminal facilitation, both felonies, according to a statement issued by the New York State Police

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