How Richard Matt and David Sweat escaped from Clinton Prison

The tunnel through which they escaped


It is the first ever time when prisoners of this maximum security prison were able to successfully attempt an escape.

Their names are Richard Matt and David Sweat (convicted murderers). What they did was cutting through the walls in their cells, scaling a cat walk and coming out through a manhole cover a block away. There were a series of underground tunnels that led from the prison to the manhole.

In order not to reveal their missing they used hooded sweatshirts and other materials to create decoys to fool the guards who run their checks every 2 hours.

The prison officials admit that some tools were used in this creative plot. And these hand tools were obtained within the Clinton facility where many contractors come to do jobs all the time.

Quick escape from jail filmed by surveillance cameras


A man who was making a phone call all of a sudden decides to break out of his jail when he sees an open window. He craws through it and ends up in a prison lobby, then another camera records his fast run out in the street. A guard followed him immediately through the same window.