with being caught. the district attorney tells abc news sweat was hiding in a hunting tree stand as an officer walked past him. sweat says while on the run he learned officers had killed richard matt and pressed on to the canadian border until a state police officer shot and wounded him. she in albany medical center in a lockdown section only for prisoners. how confident do we feel this patient is not going to escape from the hospital? very confident. reporter: the medical director says in this lockdown section of the hospital two guards watch each patient, inmates are often shackled. a jail been a hospital. there s a door that opens and closes. there s the sound of the rattling of the cage the turning over the wallet and the keys. so you know you can t help but feel this is a different unit. once you get to the patient room it is about taking care of the patients. reporter: david sweat is not expected to be released from the hospital this evening here east coast time in the un
mexico. mitchell denies that investigation. when mitchell didn t show up matt and sweat headed toward canada. as the intense manhunt dragged on sweat grew frustrated with matt because he was out of shape and couldn t keep up. sweat says the two went their separate ways after matt broke into a cabin and started getting drunk. it was after the two split up sweat had his closest call. he was hiding in a hunting tree stand adds an officer walked past him. sweat says while on the run he learned officers killed richard matt and pressed on to the canadian border until a police officer shot and wounded him. he is in albany medical center in a lockdown section only for prisoners. how confident do we feel he is not going to escape? very confident. reporter: in this lockdown section of the hospital two guards watch each patient.
one instance both escapees were hiding near a cabin when three people came to check on it. they listened in on their conversation. they waited for the coast to be clear then they left. in another instance, sweat says, he was hiding in a hunting tree stand when an officer working the search walked by. walked right by him. this happening some time after he separated from matt which was five days before matt was shot and killed. now, sweat was prepared to be on the run for quite a while according to investigators. his backpack loaded with maps a compass a transitter radio and batteries. he scored some marijuana during weeks on the run. sweat telling authorities even though their get away fell apart when the prison employee joyce mitchell failed to show up with their get away car they still tried to go to mexico. that s where they wanted to go because that s where matt had connections which obviously, didn t work out. now the hammer is falling at dannemora at the clinton correctional facil