Second US Prison Worker Charged in Breakout

A second prison employee has been arrested in connection with the escape in New York state of two convicted killers who remain on the loose after nearly three weeks. Gene Palmer, who worked at the Clinton Correctional Facility, from which the pair fled, allegedly helped smuggle tools and other contraband in frozen hamburger meat to the inmates, Richard Matt and David Sweat. Palmer, 57, is charged with promoting prison contraband, two counts of tampering with physical evidence and...

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