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Adirondack bureau chief for North Country Public Radio in Upstate New York
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Brian Mann
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FROM Brian Mann
To the Point
How Does Anyone Manage to Break Out in This Day and Age? New York State has offered a $100,000 reward for two murderers who escaped from Clinton Correctional Facility, a maximum-security prison in upstate New York near the Canadian border. David Sweat was convicted of shooting a sheriff’s deputies more than a dozen times. Richard Matt was serving time for beating a kidnapped man to death. Special thanks to Paul von Zielbauer for production assistance.
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