Photos:: New York state prison escape
A sign at the Constable Volunteer Fire and EMS thanks law enforcement after the second of two escaped prisoners was apprehended June 28 in Constable, N.Y.
(Mike Groll / Associated Press)Two murderers are still on the loose after they used power tools to escape from a maximum-security prison in New York near the Canadian border.
New York State Police officers maintain a roadblock along Highway 30 as the manhunt for escaped convict David Sweat continues near Malone, N.Y.
(Scott Olson / Getty Images)A Department of Corrections officer places a flair at a roadblock near the scene where escaped convict Richard Matt was shot and killed.
(Scott Olson / Getty Images)State corrections officers march down Sugarbush Road in Malone, N.Y., as they search for two escaped prisoners from Clinton Correctional Facility.
(Jason Hunter / Associated Press)Joyce Mitchell is arraigned in City Court near Plattsburgh, N.Y. Mitchell is accused of helping two convicted killers escape from Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora.
(Mike Groll / Associated Press)State troopers search an area in Elsinore, N.Y., as the weeklong manhunt for escapees Richard Matt and David Sweat continues.
(Eric Thayer / Getty Images)Police search near Saranac, N.Y., for prisoners Richard Matt and David Sweat.
(Eric Thayer / Getty Images)
Law enforcement officers walk along Route 3 and Trudeau Road in northern New York after emerging from the woods during a search for the two escapees.
(Mike Groll / Associated Press)A law enforcement helicopter joins the search.
(Mike Groll / Associated Press)Officers take positions along Route 3 during a search for two escapees from Clinton Correctional Facility.
(Mike Groll / Associated Press)A cut open sewer pipe through which convicted murderers David Sweat and Richard Matt escaped from the maximum security Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora, N.Y. Sweat was convicted of first-degree murder for the killing of a sheriff’s deputy in 2002 and Matt was convicted of murder and kidnapping for beating a man to death in 1997.
(Darren McGee / EPA)An apparent message left as convicted murderers David Sweat and Richard Matt escaped from the maximum security Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora, N.Y.
(Darren McGe / EPA)A cut open sewer pipe through which convicted murderers David Sweat and Richard Matt escaped from the maximum security Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora, N.Y.
(Darren McGee / EPA)New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is shown an opening cut in a cell wall through which convicted murderers David Sweat and Richard Matt escaped from the maximum security Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora, N.Y.
(Darren McGee / EPA)An opening cut in a cell wall through which convicted murderers David Sweat and Richard Matt escaped from the maximum security Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora, N.Y.
(Darren McGee / EPA)New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is shown a sewer pipe cut open through which convicted murderers David Sweat and Richard Matt escaped from the maximum security Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora, N.Y.
(Darren McGee / EPA)New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is shown a manhole through which convicted murderers David Sweat and Richard Matt escaped from the maximum security Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora, N.Y.
(Darren McGee / EPA)