27-06-2016 22:32 via wivb.com

Former corrections officer who helped Dannemora prisoners released early

PLATTSBURGH, N.Y. (WIVB) — A former corrections officer who helped Richard Matt and David Sweat escape from Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora has been released early from prison, CNN sources say.
Although Gene Palmer was sentenced to six months in prison, he was only there for four.
Palmer smuggled in tools that helped Matt and Sweat escape from the prison in northern New York. The two criminals were on the run for more than three weeks before Matt was fatally shot and S
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