Joyce Mitchell, former prison worker, gets up to 7 years for helping killers escape

By Michael Hill, The Associated Press

 An American women was sentenced up to 7 years in jail after deliberately helping 2 murderers escape from a high security prison. Joyce Mitchell, one of the 500 prison workers is being accused of helping and providing the tools/means of escape for the 2 prisoners. After the escape of the 2 prisoners, there was a search that included 1000+ people and forced many people in the surrounding neighbourhood away from their homes with the thought of a known murderer on the loose. One of the prisoners, Richard Matt was killed by a border security guard and the other, David Sweat was wounded and taken back to the prison.  Mitchell claims that Richard Matt threatened to kill her family and friends if she did not help them escape. 

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My opinion:

I think that we need to do more security/background checks on people that would get hired to work in such demanding positions. I think that we should also improve security on the so called "maximum security" because even if the 2 prisoners escape their cell, it seems hard to believe that they just walked past all of the security guards and walked into the woods to escape.