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A stunning and at times x-rated confession. joyce mitchell in her own words explaining her illicit relationship with inmate richard matt. in tears as she confessed to helping them escape from the prison where she worked in upstate new york. mitchell now facing time herself. in a multi-page confession mitchell details richard matt s grooming process that led to favors. mitchell says she met matt in 2008. by october 2013 they re talking daily. a month later, the first favor, mitchell calls matt s daughter. in 2014 matt offers to paint mitchell a portrait in exchange for boxing gloves. fast forward to april of this year. their first kiss. by may their sexual relationship is escalating and the favors are becoming more clear to mitchell ....
Bit of her confession. quote. after a couple days richard matt told me he and inmate sweat cut the holes and were going down in the pipes. i was already bringing stuff into him and didn t feel i could stop. i had known about them cutting the hole in the wall for three to four weeks. i believe i held inmate matt and sweat escape because i was caught up in the fantasy. i enjoyed the attention. i don t know where either of them are. nothing to follow. she got caught up in a fantasy? yeah. you know i ve seen this over and over. not a lot but i ve seen it several times in my career. generally it s not a very good home life or at least she thinks it s not or they think it s not. they think there is something better out there. but you know the point is she could have stopped it at any time. she could have gotten several people killed in this ordeal. ....
Of matt s intentions. so let s talk about how this got out of control. with me now is percy pitser a former federal prison ward and now the executive vice president of creative corrections. thank you for being with me. thank you for having me. glad you re here. have you read the confession? yes, i have. and i think joyce mitchell is extremely fortunate with the sentence that she has. i mean just look at the situation. she provided the equipment that allowed these two life-sentence inmates, both for murder tools to effect the escape. she had sex with the inmate. she put the institutional staff at risk. she put the police officers that had to capture them at risk. she put the community at risk. and she cost the state millions of dollars. so i think she should be grateful for the sentence that she received. it s just unbelievable. i want to read to our viewers a ....
Cop. those that s what broke the case on friday. reporter: richard matt refuses to drop his weapon when a border patrol team surrounds him in the woods. he is shot dead three times in the head. two days later, two miles south of canada police close the case. all of a sudden, the streets were just full of law enforcement, cars all the way down. reporter: a sergeant on a patrol spots sweat coming down this road. he captured the convicted killer. you got him? cool. reporter: investigators are now retracing both men s steps. here on the ground, they tell us in his last few days richard matt was moving slow maybe a mile or two a day. david sweat had advanced ahead of him covering a number of miles a day to end up here in this field where he was shot and captured just south of the ....