Mitchell helped Richard Matt and David Sweat break out of the prison in 2015. She provided tools they used to chisel through walls and pipes in a "Shawshank Redemption"-style escape in northern ...

That has led searchers to believe the men are still near the prison in Dannemora. Sweat, 35, was serving a life sentence without parole for killing a sheriff's deputy.

DANNEMORA, N.Y. -- The woman charged with helping two murderers escape from a maximum-security prison in upstate New York had discussed with them a murder-for-hire plot involving her husband ...

DANNEMORA, N.Y. -- Two civilians who encountered escaped murders Richard Matt and David Sweat said they are "lucky to be alive now" after seeing the convicts on the night they escaped.