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PLATTSBURGH, N.Y. -- A former New York prison worker who helped two murderers escape from a maximum-security lockup has been sentenced to between 2 1/3 and seven years behind bars. 
  
 Fifty-one-year-old Joyce Mitchell wiped away tears and apologized before her sentencing Monday, which she agreed to in July as part of plea deal with prosecutors. She pleaded guilty to charges related to providing tools to Richard Matt and David Sweat, who broke out of the Clinton Correctional Facility June 6. 
  
 "If I could take it all back I would," Mitchell said. "I can't begin to explain how sorry I am for all this." 
  
 During Mitchell's statement she claimed that Matt threatened to kill her husband if she didn't help him and Sweat escape. 
  
 "Why I did what I did I don't know, other than that I was scared for my husband," Mitchell said, before asking Judge Mark Rogers to let her "wear an ankle bracelet for the rest of my life," instead of sending her to prison. 
  
 But Rogers appeared unswayed by Mitchell's statement. He said before sentencing that if Mitchell wanted to protect her husband, she should have turned Sweat and Matt in when she learned of their escape plan. 
  
 "Ms. Mitchell I just don't find that explanation credible, your husband's life just would not have been in more danger," Rogers said. 
  
 He also noted that New York State officials estimate the cost of the search for Sweat and Matt -- who eluded more than 1,000 searchers in northern New York for weeks -- at $23 million. 
  
 "But staggering as the economic costs to New York State may be, the economic and non-economic cost suffered by so many people is incalculable. A large portion of the population was terrorized, " Rogers said, adding that law enforcement "traversed deeply inhospitable territory, never knowing if the next step they took would be their last." 
  
 Matt was killed by a border agent June 26. Sweat was wounded and captured by a trooper two days later. 
  
 Mitchell admitted becoming close with the pair, and she agreed to be their getaway driver before backing out. 
  
 Prosecutors also requested that Mitchell pay more than $200,000 in restitution to the State of New York. A hearing on that request is scheduled for November. ||||| The former New York state prison worker who helped two murderers escape from a maximum-security lockup has been sentenced to up to seven years in prison. (Published Monday, Sept. 28, 2015) 
  
 A remorseful, tearful former prison worker who helped two convicted murderers escape from a maximum-security lockup by providing them with tools was sentenced Monday to up to seven years behind bars. 
  
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 Joyce Mitchell, 51, wept and apologized as she was sentenced to 2 1/3 to seven years in prison under terms of a plea deal reached with prosecutors this summer. The judge also set a November hearing on the state's claim for about $120,000 in restitution from Mitchell. 
  
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 Mitchell entered the courtroom in tears and continued to cry through most of the 35-minute sentencing, and even removed her glasses to wipe her eyes. 
  
 She apologized to the community, her former co-workers and the law enforcement officers for the weeks of fear, disruption and inconvenience the search caused. 
  
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 "If I could take it all back, I would," she told the judge. "I never intended for any of this to happen." 
  
 Mitchell, 51, had pleaded guilty to charges related to providing hacksaw blades and other tools to Richard Matt and David Sweat, who broke out of the Clinton Correctional Facility on June 6. 
  
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 Matt was serving 25 years to life for the killing and dismembering of his former boss. Sweat was serving a sentence of life without parole for killing a sheriff's deputy in Broome County in 2002. 
  
 The pair eluded more than 1,000 searchers who combed the thick woods and bogs of northern New York for much of the next three weeks. Matt was killed by a border agent June 26. Sweat was wounded and captured by a state trooper two days later. 
  
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 Mitchell admitted becoming close with the pair while she worked as an instructor in the prison tailor shop. She told investigators she agreed to be their getaway driver before backing out after suffering a panic attack at the last minute. The escapees were forced to scrub plans to head to Mexico and instead fled on foot after emerging from a manhole near the prison. 
  
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 Clinton County Court Judge Kevin Ryan told Mitchell she "did terrible things" when she helped the inmates and noted how the resulting search disrupted life in a wide swath of the region for three weeks. 
  
 "A large portion of the local population were terrorized," he said. "Many were forced to flee their homes." 
  
 Mitchell said she didn't tell anyone about the inmates' escape plan because Matt had threatened to harm her family, particularly her husband, Lyle, who also worked in the prison. 
  
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 "I was fearful of Mr. Matt threatening to kill my husband and wanting to know where my son and mother live," she told the judge. 
  
 But the judge rebuffed her claim that she was protecting her family by not divulging the escape plot to authorities. 
  
 "I just don't find that explanation credible," Ryan said. 
  
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 Officials said the convicts used tools to cut their way out of their adjacent cells and get into the catwalk between the cell block walls. They crawled through an underground steam pipe and reached a street near the prison walls through a manhole. 
  
 Sweat, who is being housed in a solitary cell at a central New York prison, faces charges in the escape. 
  
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 A prison guard, Gene Palmer, who authorities have said unwittingly abetted the escape plot, has pleaded not guilty to a charge of promoting prison contraband. Officials said he gave the two prisoners frozen hamburger meat Mitchell used to hide the hacksaw blades she smuggled to Sweat and Matt. 
  
 Copyright Associated Press ||||| Former New York prison employee Joyce Mitchell cried at her sentencing today, telling the judge, "If I could take it all back I would." 
  
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 "I can't begin to explain how sorry I am for all this," she added. 
  
 Her sentencing came exactly two months after she pleaded guilty to helping two convicted murderers escape from a maximum-security prison. 
  
 Mitchell pleaded guilty in July to first-degree promoting prison contraband and fourth-degree criminal facilitation. Today, on the prison contraband charge, she was sentenced to an indeterminate period of incarceration from 2 1/3 years to 7 years. For the criminal facilitation charge, she was sentenced to 1 year concurrent to the prison contraband sentence. 
  
 She was also fined $5,000 and $1,000 for each charge respectively. 
  
 Today, the judge described the impact the manhunt had on the community -- from the millions in overtime costs for police officers to the terrorized residents who were forced out of their homes. 
  
 Mitchell, 51, wiped away tears in court today before the sentencing was announced. 
  
 "Please allow me to start by saying how sorry I am. How much remorse I have," she said through tears. 
  
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 "I am 51 years old. And this is by far the worst mistake I have ever made in my life. I live with regret every day and will for the rest of my life," Mitchell said. 
  
 Mitchell said she is seeking mental help and counseling. She said she acknowledges her actions and is still trying to understand why she made the choices she did. 
  
 District Attorney Andrew Wylie said today Mitchell has cooperated with the investigators and gave up her teaching certificate, as required by her plea deal. Wylie also said the state of New York is seeking restitution against Mitchell. 
  
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 Mitchell's attorney, Stephen Johnston, said the prisoners used power tools to escape -- which Mitchell did not provide -- so they must have had some other assistance. 
  
 Mitchell who worked in the tailor shop at Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora, New York, was jailed shortly after prisoners Richard Matt and David Sweat escaped in June. She allegedly provided tools to Matt before the escape, authorities said, by concealing them in hamburger meat. 
  
 After a three-week manhunt for the prisoners in June, Matt was shot and killed by authorities near the town of Elephant's Head in upstate New York. 
  
 Sweat was later shot and apprehended by authorities near the town of Constable in upstate New York. |||||
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Joyce Mitchell, the prison worker who helped two convicts escape an upstate New York correctional facility in June, wept during her sentencing Monday. "If I could take it all back I would," Mitchell said "in a choked voice," per NBC News. "I live with regret every day and will for the rest of my life." She also reiterated what she said in a two-part Today interview from September: that she had only helped David Sweat and Richard Matt because she feared they would kill her husband. She also asked to "wear an ankle bracelet for the rest of my life" rather than be incarcerated, per CBS News. But the presiding judge wasn't buying it. "I just don't find that explanation credible," he said before sentencing her to 2 1/3 to seven years on a contraband charge. (Mitchell avoided charges of sexual relations with the inmates and plotting to kill her husband by taking a July plea deal.) The judge rehashed all the trouble Mitchell caused, including the trauma of upstate residents whose lives were turned upside down by the manhunt, which he says was estimated to cost about $23 million, CBS notes. Mitchell acknowledged it all in her speech before the court. "I am 51 years old. And this is by far the worst mistake I have ever made in my life," she said, per ABC News, adding that she's seeking counseling. Prosecutors are also going after her to recoup the nearly $120,000 in damages that Sweat and Matt reportedly made to cell walls as they busted out; a November hearing has been set to address that issue, per NBC New York. One person who has, apparently, remained by Mitchell's side: her husband, Lyle. "My wife has a heart of gold," he told Today, per NBC. "That's her biggest downfall."