After an epic jailbreak, the FBI has launched a corruption probe of upstate New York’s Clinton Correctional Facility.
Two employees have already been implicated for somehow aiding Richard Matt and David Sweat this month, but rumors abound that chummy inmates and guards are the norm at the 150-year-old prison, not the exception.
In fact, federal authorities believe that excessive fraternizing with convicts is providing would-be escapees with valuable information about their surroundings which, in Matt and Sweat’s case, allowed them to expertly navigate rugged terrain that was otherwise unfamiliar to them.
Tip-offs about empty but well-stocked hunting cabins, rarely traveled rural routes, and hard to access locations, all came from chatty correction officers, apparently. And that info helped the two escaped murderers elude law enforcement’s massive dragnet for three weeks in a row.
Both recaptured inmates were also housed on Clinton’s rather new and rather lax “Honor Block” where the “trusted” twosome scored additional privileges that proved invaluable during the planning stages of their jailbreak.
Besides trying to ascertain the entire scope of illicit favors done for Richard Matt and David Sweat, and by whom and when, FBI investigators are additionally wondering if guards were literally asleep on the job -- one possible reason for why no one allegedly heard the determined duo sawing and drilling their way through wood, stone, and metal.
In the meantime, as the FBI’s corruption probe of Clinton Correctional gains momentum, Matt and Sweat’s luxurious Honor Block has now been rendered permanently defunct; converted back into high-security prison cells again.
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