2015 Clinton Correctional Facility escape

The 2015 Clinton Correctional Facility escape took place on June 6, 2015, when two inmates, Richard Matt and David Sweat, were discovered missing during a 5:17 a.m. bed check at the maximum security Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora, New York. Matt was serving 25 years to life and Sweat was serving life without parole, both for murder. The two prisoners had dug a tunnel out of the prison, with tools obtained from two cooperating prison employees. Nearly three weeks after the escape, Matt was found in Malone, New York, where he was shot and killed; two days after that, Sweat was shot and taken into custody. The manhunt and investigation was said to have cost about $23 million.
On June 6, 2015, the two prisoners were found to be unaccounted for during the 5:30 a.m. morning count, having been last seen at 10:30 p.m.'s count the night before. It was reported that an "external breach" was found on a street approximately 500 feet outside of the prison wall. The inmates had tunneled out of the facility. They had been housed in Honor Block, a privileged housing unit, that allowed them access to cooking stations, televisions, wall mounted telephones, showers, and card tables in the cell house at specified intervals during the day. According to news reports, the escapees used tools from contractors to cut their escape way during the nights, and returned them to their toolboxes afterwards.

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