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| New York prison worker charged with helping fugitives | New York prison worker charged with helping fugitives |
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| A New York state prison worker who police say provided tool parts to help two convicted murderers escape has been arrested. | |
| Workshop instructor Joyce Mitchell, 51, is charged with promoting prison contraband and criminal facilitation. | Workshop instructor Joyce Mitchell, 51, is charged with promoting prison contraband and criminal facilitation. |
| Richard Matt and David Sweat escaped a week ago using power tools to cut through their cell walls at the Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora. | |
| A massive manhunt is currently under way for the pair. | A massive manhunt is currently under way for the pair. |
| Prosecutors have told US media outlets that Mrs Mitchell gave Matt and Sweat hacksaw blades and drill bits, but did not provide the more powerful tools they used. | |
| She also planned to be the pair's getaway driver but changed her mind at the last minute, investigators said. | |
| Mrs Mitchell's family has said she would not have helped an escape. | Mrs Mitchell's family has said she would not have helped an escape. |
| Prosecutor Andrew Wylie said that Mrs Mitchell faced up to eight years in prison if convicted on both charges. | |
| Mr Wylie said more charges against Mrs Mitchell were possible. | |
| Matt, 48, and Sweat, 34, cut through brick and steel to crawl through an underground pipe and emerge from a manhole outside the prison's 40ft walls. | |
| The manhunt - involving hundreds of police officers searching stretching in New York state, Vermont and Canada - is now into its seventh day. | The manhunt - involving hundreds of police officers searching stretching in New York state, Vermont and Canada - is now into its seventh day. |
| Bad weather has hampered the search, police say, but the men are also at a disadvantage if they have not found shelter. | |
| "They've got to be cold, wet, tired and hungry," said Charles Guess, one of the investigators. |