On Friday Richard Matt, who escaped with Sweat, was shot and killed in the same area. Sweat was shot by a State Police officer and taken into custody in Constable, New York, north of Malone and near the Canadian border. MALONE, NY - JUNE 28: Residents gather outside the emergency room of the Alice Hyde Medical Center after convicted murderer David Sweat was brought in with gunshot wounds following his capture on Jin Constable, New York. (AP Photo) Show More Show Less 113 of126 Sunday, June 28. His capture came two days after his escape partner, Richard Matt, was shot and killed by authorities. Sweat is the second of two convicted murderers who staged a brazen escape three weeks ago from a maximum-security prison in northern New York. Police stand over David Sweat after he was shot and captured near the Canadian border Sunday, June 28, 2015, in Constable, N.Y. ![]() ![]() Mark Lennihan Show More Show Lessġ11 of126 112 of126 Sunday, June 28. Their assignment on the honor block also allowed them to wear and keep regular clothing other than their prison uniforms, which may have been critical in their escape when they clambered out of a sewer manhole a block from the prison on June 6. ![]() The looser restrictions on the honor block tier may have been a factor in the meticulous escape plan because the inmates in that section of the prison were able to cook, visit one another's cells and were generally given more liberties than inmates in other areas of the prison. The good-behavior tier that housed the two former inmates at Clinton Correctional Facility was reverted to a regular prison block and no longer has the looser rules it did before the escape, according to a law enforcement source. Mark Lennihan Show More Show Less 74 of126 Wednesday, June 17 72 of126 73 of126 Dozens of corrections officers march off to the woods near the Clinton Correctional Facility, Tuesday, Jin Dannemora, N.Y.
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