PLATTSBURGH, N.Y. — The former prison employee who provided the tools that two murderers used to cut their way out of a maximum-security facility in northern New York will pay the state nearly $80,000 to cover the costs of repairing the damage caused during the daring breakout.
A prosecutor said during Joyce Mitchell’s restitution hearing on Friday that she will pay $79,841, plus a 10 percent surcharge, for the damage Richard Matt and David Sweat caused by using hacksaw blades and other tools she provided to break out of Clinton Correctional Facility in June.
