and many slept with guns to be safe. as for david sweat, if he survives officials say his life will change permanently. his privileges will be limited. no more honor block. no more freedom of working in a tailor shop. he will be basically 24/7 lockdown for the rest of his life. what about some of the others? guard gene palmer has been charged with official misconduct and destroying evidence after admitting to unintentionally helping matt and sweat escape. palmer says he provided them with tools in exchange for information. that relationship with the inmates and corrections officers is the subject of the investigation. a person briefed on the inquiry think sweat and matt had been gathering information on cabins and fields around the prison for almost a year before they broke out. breaking news this morning. stocks tumbling around the world
prison. no way it went undetected and he could help clean it up. david sweat is most likely armed and it is going to rain tonight. i don t know how they are getting food. two people were arrested as accomplices and that is david sweat who remains at large. one working in the tailor shop and one unknowingly transfer raw beef that contained tools in it. didn t think he was according to him letting these guys escape. what information do you expect if they get david sweat alive will the fbi and investigators be asking him? what has to happen. they have to change the protocol in the prison. what in all of good and holy did they deliver meat to him in a cell. it is impossible to think that
able to cook food in his own cell and watching television work in a tailor shop and having relationships with a civilian employee who worked in that tailor shop who is facing charges of aiding enabetting these two men s escape. he had a good life behind bars at clinton. he won t get that kind of life behind bars when he s returned to a maximum security facility after treatment of his injury. judge jeanine pirro joins us on the phone. we re talking about how this guy has nothing to lose. he certainly has nothing to gain cooperating with law enforcement. he s behind bars and he s going to be in a whole world of hell once they put him there. what leverage do they have with him? if he s in solitary confinement, a different kind of life, he may be willing to give out some information about the lack of security at a so-called maximum security prison.
sources close to the investigation have told cnn that matt had a relationship with joyce mitchell the woman who worked with limb and david sweat at the tailor shop. mitchell is alleged to have passed tools inside frozen is hamburger meat. mitchell as attorney says that richard matt considered clinton correctional officers palmer quote, as his boy. palmers s attorney has not commented on that. after the ricker son killing in 1997 richard matt fled to mexico to get away. he served nine years there for killing a man in a bar fight in mexico. then he was extradited to the u.s. to stand trial in the ricker son case. a detective from that case described richard matt as psychotic. quote i have seen him inflict wounds on himself, break her collarbone and not seek any treatment. he s just totally, totally fearless and does not respond
learned that several corrections officers are now being investigated. we have joyce mitchell civilian employee in the tailor shop who acknowledges she gave them some tools, hacksaw blades phillips head screwdriver drill bit that she would put it in a hunk of ground beef that she froze, put in the refrigerator, in the freezer, in the tailor shop. a guard she asked to take and deliver it to the two prisoners. that guard is now has now also been arrested. there are all sorts of tales. you listen to the guard s statement to gene palmer his statement to investigators, he acknowledges that he gave contraband to these prisoners. he gave them paint acrylic