Parole hearing set for NY woman who helped 2 killers escape
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The woman who helped two killers escape from a maximum-security prison in northern New York in 2015 is scheduled for a parole hearing.
State prison officials say Joyce Mitchell's hearing before a parole board will take place this week at the Bedford Hills Correctional Facility in Westchester County. The board doesn't release the days when hearings are held.
The 52-year-old Mitchell was sentenced to seven years in prison for helping convicted murderers Richard Matt and David Sweat escape in June 2015 from Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora (dan-uh-MAWR'-uh), near the Canadian border. She supervised the two inmates in the prison's tailor shop.
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Matt was shot dead three weeks later by searchers in woods west of the prison. Sweat was shot and captured two days later near the border.