New York Places Corrections Officer on Leave as Escape Inquiry Broadens
Friday, June 19, 2015 10:31 PM EDT
A corrections officer at the maximum-security prison where two inmates escaped this month has been put on administrative leave in connection with the investigation, the New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision said on Friday.
How the officer might be implicated in the escape from the Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora, N.Y., was not made public. The department said no additional information was available.
The announcement was the first significant development in the case since a civilian employee was arrested a week ago. The employee, Joyce E, Mitchell, 51, had worked with the two inmates in a tailor shop and was accused of providing them tools, including hacksaw blades, a screwdriver bit and chisels, that they used in their escape.
A person with knowledge of the inquiry, who spoke only on the condition of anonymity, said investigators were focused on as many as four corrections officers who either had switched their posts in the months before the escape or had often been seen at night around the cellblock where the two men were housed. Among other documents, the officers’ bank and phone records were being examined.
NYTimes.com
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