David Sweat was the only one of two escaped inmates to survive in Escape at Dannemorabut what happened to the real person after he was captured and brought back to prison? The Showtime miniseries was initially released back in 2018, though its arrival on Netflix has thrust this story back into the limelight. Escape at Dannemora is based on the real-life prison escape of 2015, in which two inmates, Richard Matt and Matthew Sweat, seduced a married prison employee to gain her help in the first US prison break in decades.
Escape at Dannemora has been praised for its accuracy, and much of the details surrounding Matt and Sweat's escape are depicted in the series as it is believed to have happened in real life. Joyce "Tilly" Mitchell snuck tools into Clinton Correctional Facility by hiding them within frozen ground beef, and the inmate duo used these to cut holes in...
Escape at Dannemora has been praised for its accuracy, and much of the details surrounding Matt and Sweat's escape are depicted in the series as it is believed to have happened in real life. Joyce "Tilly" Mitchell snuck tools into Clinton Correctional Facility by hiding them within frozen ground beef, and the inmate duo used these to cut holes in...
- 10/27/2024
- by Angel Shaw
- ScreenRant
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