![]() Richard Matt had been trouble since an early age. Known colloquially as “Dannemora” for the small upstate town in which it’s situated, its remote northern location near the Canadian border also earned it the nickname “Little Siberia.” Opened in 1845, Clinton Correctional Facility is New York State’s largest maximum security prison and home to such infamous luminaries as serial killer Joel Rifkin and rapper Bobby Shmurda. Though both Matt and Sweat were cold-blooded killers, they made for model prisoners, and became friends on the Honor Block at Clinton Correctional Facility, where inmates with years of good behavior are afforded bigger cells. The event would eventually be dramatized in the new Showtime mini-series, “ Escape At Dannemora.” When it was all over, one of the men would be dead, two prison officials would become inmates themselves and the prison would come under intense scrutiny. "If it was a movie plot, you would say that it was overdone,” said Governor Cuomo, sticking with his Hollywood theme. Escaped convicts Richard Matt and David Sweat, however, were no innocents.Īs authorities learned more about the breakout, additional characters played supporting roles and the plotlines became more sensational and lurid. The summer 2015 prison break from the Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora, New York, was so brazen and daring that it was almost immediately compared to something you’d see in a movie. Governor Andrew Cuomo likened it to 1994’s “The Shawkshank Redemption,” based on a Stephen King story about a man wrongfully sentenced to life in prison who spends years plotting his escape. ![]()
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