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.
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“I would like to apologize to the community, the people who felt the fear and felt it necessary to leave their homes and their community because of the escape”, said Sweat, his head shaved, his ankles and wrists shackled, and dressed in green prison scrubs.
Convicted killer David Sweat, who escaped from prison, is scheduled to be in court Wednesday for sentencing.
Sweat’s new sentence of seven to 14 years is largely a formality, since he is already serving a life sentence without the possibility of parole for killing a law enforcement officer after a robbery.
They cut their way into a steam pipe to make their way through a manhole on to the streets of the sleepy upstate NY town.
A judge ordered the 35-year-old to pay $79,841 in restitution and serve 3 1/2 to 7 years in prison for the escape.
Sweat was sentenced on two felony counts of first-degree escape, and a felony count of promoting prison contraband.
“It was never my intent”.
He is also ordered to pay around $80,000 in restitution and fines.
Sweat, the only one of the escapees who survived a massive police manhunt, apologized at his sentencing hearing in Plattsburgh for distressing area residents during the pair’s time on the lam. In November, Sweat pleaded guilty to all those charges.
Prison tailor-shop supervisor Joyce Mitchell, 51, of Dickinson Center, is serving 2/3 to seven years in Bedford Hills Correctional Facility for supplying Sweat and Matt with some of the tools they used to escape.
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A call to defense attorney Joe Mucia was not immediately returned.
