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Lax security procedures set stage for New York prison breakout
By dispatch.com- Michael Winerip, Michael Schwirtz & Vivian Yee
Published: 06/22/2015

DANNEMORA, N.Y. — By the time David Sweat and Richard W. Matt engineered their extraordinary escape from the maximum-security prison here, corrections officers were rarely shining lights over the faces of inmates during hourly bed checks, making it hard to know if a living, breathing person was inside a cell.

The catwalks and underground tunnels that made their getaway possible were no longer being inspected regularly.

And no one was inside two of the 35-foot-high guard towers when the two convicted killers climbed out of a manhole outside the prison walls and fled into the night.

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