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Escape from Dannemora: Richard Matt, David Sweat, and the Great Adirondack Manhunt
It was one of the biggest crime stories of the decade--two deadly killers, desperate and on the run. After months of planning, Ricky Matt and David Sweat cut, chopped, coerced, and connived their way out of a maximum-security prison in the wilderness of upstate New York and managed to elude police for three weeks, sending the region into lockdown and keeping the entire country on edge. The media called it "a bold escape for the ages," and veteran true-crime writer Michael Benson leads us along the story's every wild path to dig out a tale of adventure, psychology, sex, and brutality. Escape from Dannemora examines the strange case of Joyce Mitchell, the long-time prison employee who had a sexual relationship with at least one of the killers, and who smuggled them tools and aided in the escape, while they cooked up a plan to kill her husband. In the end, Benson looks closely at conditions at the Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora, NY, a crumbling Gothic pile now under investigation for charges of drug trafficking and brutality.
Book Details
- Publisher: Foreedge
- Publish Date: Apr 4th, 2017
- Pages: 256
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 9.00in - 6.00in - 0.70in - 0.80lb
- EAN: 9781611689761
- Categories: • General• General
About the Author
MICHAEL BENSON has written on music, sports, crime, film, the military, and politics for a range of national publications. He is the author of Why the Grateful Dead Matter, and of numerous books of true crime, including The Devil at Genesee Junction and Evil Season. He lives in Brooklyn.
Praise for this book
A solid read and informative text about prison management, this book will be of interest to students and staff involved in correctional facilities and general readers of true crime."-- "Library Journal"
While Benson easily achieves the two goals of compiling information and writing a captivating story, he achieves something more difficult. He illuminates the relationship between the Dannemora prison and the community it resides in, with all the complexities inherent between them."-- "Adirondack Daily Enterprise"