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A spokeswoman for the diocese says the bishop is concerned about the safety of the children given that police are searching nearby woods for escaped prisoners Richard Matt and David Sweat.
The veteran corrections officer charged in connection with the escape of two murderers from a New York prison once told an interviewer that the stress of working there could drive a person into alcoholism and suicide.
A New York state prison guard charged in connection with the escape of two murderers says he allowed one of the convicts access to an interior catwalk that the convicts later used to make their breakout.
Gene Palmer's statement to authorities investigating the escape says he let David Sweat get onto the catwalk located behind his and Richard Matt's adjacent cells at the maximum-security Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora.
The 57-year-old corrections officer says he did the inmates a favor in return for paintings by Matt and information on illegal activity by other inmates.
Court documents accuse the corrections officer charged in connection with the escape of two killers from a New York prison with providing the pair with a screwdriver and needle-nose pliers.
The documents released by prosecutors Wednesday night also say 57-year-old corrections officer Gene Palmer burned and buried paintings he received from inmates Richard Matt and David Sweat after the pair escaped from Clinton Correctional Facility on June 6.
A New York state corrections officer charged in connection with the escape of two murderers from a maximum-security prison has bailed himself out of an upstate jail.