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Investigators Exclusive: Prison drone flyover reveals potential security threat
By abc7ny.com- Jim Hoffer
Published: 02/16/2016

NEW YORK (WABC) --

An escape at an upstate New York maximum-security prison dominated headlines for weeks last June and embarrassed New York's Department of Corrections. But what has not been reported is that shortly thereafter, there was a security breach that shows how little prepared our prisons are to deal with a growing threat.

Eight weeks after convicted murderers Richard Matt and David Sweat used hacksaw blades to escape from the Clinton Correctional Facility, a drone flew over the wall at the prison and all around the yard, taking high-definition video of correctional officers below and of prisoners walking in the yard.

Video obtained exclusively by Eyewitness News shows the drone penetrating the prison perimeter at a time when the facility was supposed to be on lockdown following the escape.

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