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Prison Where 2 Escaped Is Getting Back to Normal

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Clinton Correctional Facility is getting back to normal after the escape of two inmates from the maximum-security prison.

Officials said in a press conference on Friday that it was necessary to keep the Dannemora, N.Y. prison on lockdown while structural repairs were made to the route Richard Matt and David Sweat used to break out, including fixing the cells, steam tunnels and pipe, concrete walls and manhole cover. Those repairs are now completed, and most normal operations have resumed. Prison visits restarted on Friday, and inmates took their lunch in the mess hall on Thursday and will return to educational and vocational programs next week.

Matt and Sweat’s location remains unknown. Their accused accomplice, prison worker Joyce Mitchell, has been charged with promoting prison contraband and criminal facilitation.

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New York Prison Escape Governor Cuomo
Gov. Andrew Cuomo tours the Clinton Correctional Facility, where two inmates escaped on Saturday, in Dannemora, N.Y. on June 6, 2015.Darren McGee—Office of the Governor of New York
New York Prison Escape Governor Cuomo
A man-made hole in the wall of the escaped inmates' cell at Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora, N.Y. on June 6, 2015.Darren McGee—Office of the Governor of New York
New York Prison Escape Governor Cuomo
The industrial area where inmates escaped to from a hole in their cell at the Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora, N.Y. on June 6, 2015.Darren McGee—Office of the Governor of New York
New York Prison Escape Governor Cuomo
Gov. Andrew Cuomo tours the escape route taken by two prisoners at the Clinton Correctional Facility on Saturday, in Dannemora, N.Y. on June 6, 2015.Darren McGee—Office of the Governor of New York
New York Prison Escape Governor Cuomo
Gov. Andrew Cuomo tours the escape route taken by two prisoners at the Clinton Correctional Facility on Saturday, in Dannemora, N.Y. on June 6, 2015.Darren McGee—Office of the Governor of New York
New York Prison Escape Governor Cuomo
Gov. Andrew Cuomo tours the escape route taken by two prisoners at the Clinton Correctional Facility on Saturday, in Dannemora, N.Y. on June 6, 2015.Darren McGee—Office of the Governor of New York
New York Prison Escape Governor Cuomo
Governor Andrew Cuomo tours the escape route taken by two prisoners at the Clinton Correctional Facility on Saturday, in Dannemora, N.Y. on June 6, 2015.Darren McGee—Office of the Governor of New York
New York Prison Escape Governor Cuomo
Governor Andrew Cuomo tours the escape route taken by two prisoners at the Clinton Correctional Facility on Saturday, in Dannemora, N.Y. on June 6, 2015.Darren McGee—Office of the Governor of New York
New York Prison Escape Governor Cuomo
Gov. Andrew Cuomo tours the escape route taken by two prisoners at the Clinton Correctional Facility on Saturday, in Dannemora, N.Y. on June 6, 2015.Darren McGee—Office of the Governor of New York
New York Prison Escape Governor Cuomo
Gov. Andrew Cuomo surveys the manhole where two prisoners resurfaced after escaping from the Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora, N.Y. on June 6, 2015.Darren McGee—Office of the Governor of New York

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