Planned to have her husband killed
'Shawshank' prison employee confirms she WAS having sex with inmate before his escape
The prison worker accused of providing hacksaw blades, chisels and other tools to two convicted murderers who escaped from a maximum-security prison in upstate New York admitted to police she had sex with one of the fugitives and discussed having them kill her husband.
Clinton County District Attorney Andrew Wylie at a news conference Wednesday that Joyce Mitchell had talked to inmates Richard Matt and David Sweat about killing her husband, Lyle, who also works at the Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora, near the Canadian border.
Sweat and Matt broke out of the 170-year-old prison in far northern New York June 6 and have yet to be apprehended. Joyce Mitchell, a prison tailoring shop instructor who befriended the inmates, was arrested June 12.
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