PLATTSBURGH, N.Y. (NEWS10) – The District Attorney called it an escape that caused extreme trauma and fear in Clinton County during Richard Matt and David Sweat’s escape back in June. On Wednesday ...

PLATTSBURGH (AP) – A convicted killer already serving life behind bars was ordered today to pay restitution and sentenced to additional prison time for his daring escape last year from a ...

A New York State trooper had the law on his side when he shot unarmed fugitive David Sweat, apparently in the back, as the escaped killer ran toward a forest near the Canadian border. State and ...

David Sweat was sentenced Wednesday morning to three-and-a-half years to seven years in prison for his escape last year from the maximum security Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora.

David Sweat, a cop killer who broke out of Dannemora’s maximum-security state prison with another murderer and spent three weeks on the run in 2015, has been transferred to the state prison in Attica.