Two inmates made a daring and
cinematic escape over the weekend from Clinton Correctional Facility,
the upstate prison known as “Little Siberia,” somehow obtaining the
power tools necessary to carve their way out of their steel cells and
into a large pipe leading to a street outside. The account below is
based on statements from the New York State governor’s office and police
officials.
First, the inmates cut neat
rectangular holes in the steel at the backs of their cells. They
fashioned dummies from sweatshirts and stuffed their beds to thwart
discovery during regular cell checks by guards.
The inmates, both serving long
terms for vicious murders, had adjoining cells. The rectangular holes
can be seen in both walls from the catwalk behind the cells.
Once inside the mechanical
corridors of the prison, the men broke through a brick wall, made their
way to a 24-inch drain pipe and cut a hole in it.
They left a taunting note for the authorities that included a racist caricature …
and crawled through pipes and
tunnels to a manhole about 400 feet outside the walls of the prison,
cutting through a steel lock and chain to open it.
The two killers have disappeared.
It was the first escape in the 150-year history of the maximum-security
prison in Dannemora, N.Y., the state’s largest. One side of it, which
has 30-foot-high walls, faces Cook Street, part of a state highway
between Plattsburgh and the Canadian border. The authorities said on
Sunday the men could be “anywhere.”
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