NY prison guard helped escapees in exchange for snitching, art: documents
Source: Yahoo! News / Reuters
PLATTSBURGH, N.Y. (Reuters) - A guard charged in the upstate New York escape of two inmates said he allowed them into the prison's internal catwalks, which they later used to flee, in return for snitching on other inmates, according to court documents.
Corrections officer Gene Palmer said he also let inmates David Sweat and Richard Matt change electrical wiring in order to cook in their cells at Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora, New York.
Palmer's sworn deposition was posted in a New York Times story.
He is accused of bringing hacksaw blades and a screwdriver bit hidden inside frozen hamburger to the convicted killers.
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