prisoners david sweat and richard matt escaped. according to the newspaper, prisoner s legal group, other inmates were beaten and threatened with waterboarding by prison guards. my colleague craig melvin has the details. reporter: the new york times calls it a campaign of retribution. following the three-week manhunt for richard matt and dave sweat, prison guards from clinton correctional abused dozens of inmates looking for information about the escape. quote two inmates who worked in the prison tailor shop, one guard tied a plastic bag around his neck tightening it until he passed out. the other inmate says, corrects officials put him in solitary confinement for three weeks and threw out most of his brongings including family photographs and wedding ring. following the escape, more than 60 prisoners filed complaints with the prisoners legal services, an organization that helps indigent prisoners. the amount of complaints that we have received lately in the
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that doesn t help him. yeah. you know, he didn t rush to come clean in terms of his involvement. that would have saved his hide a little bit more so than what s happened here. i think across the board you see from joyce mitchell, gene palmer, dave sweat and richard matt that failing to plan, is planning to fail. they didn t have a plan b. joyce mitchell didn t pick us up we were supposed to go to mexico instead we go to canada. richard matt has blisters, sweat says forget you and took off. you predicted. you said they should flight up. i don t think that gene palmer is going to be looking at exposure. joyce mitchell. they definitely planned to kill lyle michelleer. mitchell. she is looking at serious charges for planned attempted murder of her husband. i m pretty sure that they if they weren t watching i don t think they took my
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jay cook did when you think he was alone on patrol in the incredibly remote place where you are. pick up the story from there and walk me through some of the details we re getting on this takedown. ashleigh, you touched on a very important point here. he ll 1200 officers canvassing the area yet this ended with a single confrontation between two men that new york state police officer and cop killer david sweat. it all played out right here in this field. let me show you what this officer is telling new york governor andrew cuomo that went down yesterday afternoon. police sergeant jay cook saying he was on patrol, only about 50 yards in front of me when he noticed a suspicious individual walking near this field. he confronted him, identified him as david sweat. that s when sweat made a clear break for the tree line that you see in the distance here. two main key things playing out in the officer s mind according to what the governor is saying. he was worried if he made it to that treel