Today at approximately 10:30 a.m., Inmate David Sweat was arraigned in Clinton County Court as a result of Grand Jury indictments for two counts of escape 1st degree, a class D felony and one count of promoting prison contraband 1st degree, also a class D felony.
Inmate Sweat was processed without incident at SP Plattsburgh and remains in the custody of New York State Department of Corrections.
The 2015 Clinton Correctional Facility escape took place on June 6, 2015, when two inmates, Richard Matt and David Sweat, were discovered missing during a 5:30 a.m. bed check at the maximum security Clinton Correctional Facility.
The two men had each been serving time for murder.
Nearly three weeks later, Matt was found at Malone, New York, where he was shot and killed; and two days after that, Sweat was shot and taken into custody.
The manhunt and investigation was said to cost about $23 million.
