aimed it at the agent who then shot three times. they were on the run for more than three weeks. prison worker joyce mitchell who helped with their escape but got cold feet for the planned get away is now serving up to seven years behind bars. i did wrong, i deserve to be p punished. but people need to know that i was only trying to save my family. in 2015 a jury sentenced bomber to death. the convicted boston bomber will meet his end by lethal injection for his actions that killed four people. even in the wake of horror and tragedy, we are not intimidated by acts of terror or radical ideals. nine people died inside the historic emanual african methodist episcop miss cobalanc
today thousands of teachers in seattle, washington remain on strike, cancelling classes for more than 50,000 students, despite talks into the weekend, teachers have yet to reach an agreement over pay raises and extending the length of this the school day. for more than six years, teachers went without a raise until state lawmakers were forced by the courts to increase education funding. the amount of the raise has not been disclosed, but the union insists it is not enough. for the first time, we are hearing from the prison worker who helped two convicted murderers escape from prison in upstate new york. in an exclusive interview, joyce mitchell spoke about her relationship with richard matt and david sweat and what she did to help them break out of prison. she sat down for a jail house interview with the today show s matt lauer. david sweat shot a sheriff s deputy 15 times. so these are two guys who
for months, people have wondered just why prison worker joyce mitchell helped two convicted killers escape from a maximum security prison in upstate new york. now joyce mitchell talks publicly for the first time about why she smuggled tools to the convicts and her bizarre relationship with the men, in this exclusive interview on the today show with matt lauer. how close were you and how close did you become to the inmates? is it fair to say you also became a friend? it is fair to say that. was there flirtation as part of that friendship? there was. did you think that perhaps you were crossing some sort of a line? i was at first, but then i guess i guess i got a little too comfortable. did anybody ever stop you and say, you know, joyce, back off a little bit, get back behind the
barricaded, if they know where the shooter is, they should get that out to the police on 911 or via texting or however they can get it out because the key is to locate him. they want to go right past everybody to the shooter and stop him. they don t want to do any searching first. they want to get to him or them and stop them immediately, so the key, the first thing for law enforcement, is to locate the active shooter, to stop him, to engage him, to stop him from doing what he s doing. thanks so much, jim cavanaugh. we will obviously stay in touch. we ll be back after this break with the jailhouse interview that is sparking a lot of conversation. matt lauer s exclusive interview with joyce mitchell. the prison worker who helped two inmates escape. you know what they re saying. she s hearing these stories every day, she s giving them some of the tools they re using. and she s the monster. and she did nothing to stop it. i knew i was in way over my head.
committed heinous crimes. yes. and these are the guys you allowed yourself to have a friendship with? yes. everybody tells me i m way too nice. when did they start asking you for favors? a few months before they decided to get out, they were asking me for things. so what did you bring them? i would bring cookies, brownies, you know, stuff like that. pretending that you were bringing them in for yourself? yes. how often did you do that, joyce? i did it a lot. were you ever nervous? were you afraid you d get caught doing it? i actually was. because they re supposed to check our bags every morning when we come in. and they re supposed to check them when you go out. but they never did. and then they started asking for other things. when richard matt comes to you