Female N.Y. prison employee pleads not guilty in convict escape

[Yahoo! News]

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By Barbara Goldberg and Ellen Wulfhorst NEW YORK (Reuters) - A woman employee of an upstate New York prison on Friday pleaded not guilty to charges that she helped two inmates stage a daring escape from the maximum security facility. Joyce Mitchell, an industrial training supervisor at the Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora, was arrested on suspicion of having smuggled contraband into the prison, from which convicts Richard Matt and David Sweat escaped last weekend, authorities said. Mitchell, 51, is charged with promoting prison contraband and criminal facilitation, according to the New York State Police.

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