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The 2015 Clinton Correctional Facility escape took place on June 6, 2015, when two inmates, Richard Matt and David Sweat, were discovered missing during a 5:30 a.m. bed check at the maximum security Clinton Correctional Facility. The two men had each been serving time for murder.〔(【引用サイトリンク】author=The New York Times )〕 Nearly three weeks later, Matt was found at Malone, New York, where he was shot and killed;〔 and two days after that, Sweat was shot and taken into custody.〔 The manhunt and investigation was said to cost about $23 million.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=NY Prison Escape: Manhunt Cost the State $1 Million a Day, Records Show )〕 ==Escape== On June 7, 2015, it was reported that an "external breach" was found on a street approximately south of the prison wall. The inmates were later stated to have tunneled out of the facility with hacksaw blades provided by a corrections department employee. The men were housed in Honor Block, a privileged housing unit, that allowed them access to cooking stations, televisions, wall mounted telephones, showers, and card tables in the cell house at specified intervals during the day.〔(【引用サイトリンク】author=The New York Times )〕 According to news reports, the escapees used tools from contractors to cut their escape way during the nights, and returned them to their toolboxes afterwards.〔(【引用サイトリンク】date=15 June 2015 )〕 The escape was elaborate and has been compared to the escape made in the novella and film by Stephen King, ''The Shawshank Redemption''. New York Governor Andrew Cuomo took a walking tour of the facility with publicity cameras present. Authorities found that the two were had planned to be picked up by a prison employee, Joyce Mitchell, who later decided not to do so, and then, according to a relative, developed chest pains and was hospitalized.〔(【引用サイトリンク】date=11 June 2015 )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】date=11 June 2015 )〕 A second employee, prison guard Gene Palmer, was also charged with aiding the escape. Palmer admitted to investigators that he smuggled tools into the prison and did other favors for Richard Matt in exchange for paintings. ==Manhunt== Authorities searched the farms and fields around the town of Willsboro, New York, after receiving a tip that Matt and Sweat may have been spotted there on June 9. Authorities spent June 9 and 10 retracing their steps near Dannemora after searching Willsboro, and also expanded the search to the border with Vermont, saying the two may have tried to flee to the state. Authorities in Canada, including the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) and departments along the border with the U.S., and Mexico, where Matt had previously been convicted of murder, were also alerted. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), state and local police, and the New York State Forest Rangers (the Adirondack State Park covers the area) were all involved in the search, which was being led by the local police and the Marshal's Service working with prison officials. There was a $50,000 bounty set for each inmate by Governor Cuomo and was subsequently increased to $75,000 when the U. S. Marshals added $25,000 each. There were no reports of break-ins or robberies or murders, but there were two reports of sightings. In all the cases, police had not had any run-ins with the actual escapees before they presumably left the area. A stretch of nearby New York State Route 374 was closed until further notice on June 11. School classes were canceled in Dannemora and Saranac. Later that day, the number of officers present in the area near the prison was raised to more than 500, from the initial estimate of between 300 and 400. That afternoon and evening, after bloodhounds picked up a scent and authorities discovered a footprint and a wrapper, police began methodically searching, until nightfall, a wooded area near the nearby town of Cadyville, New York. Police, however, said this was not a lead that produced definite evidence that the escapees were still in that area. Areas of Plattsburgh and Lake Champlain had also been searched, and billboards asking for help were put up in New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Vermont, Pennsylvania, and along the Canadian border.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Authorities Hunting for 2 Escapees Focus on 5-Square-Mile Area Near Prison )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Guns at Hand, a Prison Town Tracks a Manhunt for Escaped Convicts )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Manhunt for Two Escaped Killers Expands to Vermont )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Inside the mind of New York state prison worker Joyce Mitchell )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Why New York's Cuomo has thrown himself into hunt for prison escapees )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Inside the forensics of the manhunt for escaped killers )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Swampy area in upstate New York town focus of hunt for escaped killers )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=PHOTOS: Manhunt for Clinton Correctional fugitives )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Police: Every lead will be exhausted )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=NY governor says escaped convicts are likely to kill again )〕 On June 12, the seventh day of the search, it was reported that there was still no confirmed sighting of the escapees.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=NY Prison Escape: Gas Station the Latest Focus of Hunt for Convicts )〕 Later that day, prison worker Joyce Mitchell was arrested and charged with aiding the escapees. Her bond was set at $200,000.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Source: New York prison employee in custody, to be arraigned )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Woman suspected of aiding escapees pleads not guilty to charges )〕 According to reports from June 13, the continued search also included helicopters, all-terrain vehicles, and search dogs. However, bad weather conditions with rain hampered search efforts.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Police Tell Escaped New York Killers: 'We're Coming for You' )〕 On June 20, the search continued in Allegany County in western New York based on a sighting in the town of Friendship, New York. On June 22, the search shifted back to an area near the prison after a cabin near Owls Head in Franklin County was discovered to have been broken into. DNA from the inmates was found in the cabin and investigators concluded that they had been there within the previous 24 hours. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「2015 Clinton Correctional Facility escape」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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