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Governor seeks IG investigation of prison break
By timesunion.com- Brendan J. Lyons
Published: 06/15/2015

With the search for two escapees from a maximum security prison in its second week, Gov. Andrew Cuomo has asked the state Inspector General's office to investigate the circumstances that led up to the breakout.

A mix of poor supervision of correction officers and lax checkpoints for employees entering state prisons are among the factors that may have contributed to the unmatched escape from Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora.

The Times Union reported Sunday that the Department of Corrections and Community Supervision's own inspector general's office mishandled an internal investigation into a female employee's personal relationship with one of the inmates.

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