And now, another case today of a prison worker aiding a convict in an escape:
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/n-c-murderer-escapes-help-prison-worker-authorities-say-n383456
Interesting fact: Killers used pepper to throw police dogs off scent.
I can’t imagine having been in one of those cabins, terrified of becoming a possible victim of either of those guys.
Source?
I thought this myth has been busted many times.
ETA: Found this:
So they MAY have ATTEMPTED to throw the dogs off.
You seem to have come up with quite a few interesting “facts” on this thread 
The escapees must have seen Cool Hand Luke.
How long before the TV movie comes out?
I liked the original book Cool Hand Luke better than the movie version. Author Donn Pearce was himself a prisoner in Florida correction system before he wrote the novel. In the book version Luke was arrested on Florida Avenue in Tampa for stealing the parking meters outside a bar he’d just gotten plastered in on pay day. The road prison Luke was in in the book was in rural Lake county Florida about 60 miles north of Tampa. Road prisons used to be big in Florida…I don’t think there are any left…if there are there can’t be many left.
And I understand the movie Cool Hand Luke was actually filmed in Bakersfield, California rather than the Deep South…
I think there will be two possible outcomes when they begin to interview Sweat. (A) He’ll refuse to cooperate, believing that there’s nothing more they can do to punish him. Taking away his honor block status is a forgone conclusion. I guess solitary confinement is a possible threat the warden could make, but Sweat is a hardened killer, so that may not make a difference to him, and few people stay in solitary confinement forever (I think that perpetual solitary confinement has been ruled cruel and unusual punishment, unless a prisoner is a consistent threat that refuses to conform to prison rules and demeanor). (B) The other possibility, in my opinion, is that they will offer him all kinds of sweets to get him to tell them the logistics of his escape. He’ll never get back on the honor block but they might toss other less conspicuous benefits his way. Then again, he’s the one who killed a police officer in the first place.
I think the honor block at Dannemora has been shut down. Don’t know about any other prison in NY. Sweat won’t be going back to CCS, anyway. And since he could be considered a consistence threat - given that he escaped - he could very well be in solitary for the rest of his life.
I doubt the movie producers would have been allowed to film, or have wanted to shoot movie in Lake county back then when Willis McCall was sheriff.
http://www.sptimes.com/News/112899/Floridian/A_Southern_sheriff_s_.shtml
The latest.
http://www.timesunion.com/news/article/Prison-guard-Gene-Palmer-to-return-to-court-in-6355185.php
Rather than Cool Hand Luke, they should have read this one:
Or followed the example of first degree murderer and lifer Jack ‘Murph the Surf’ Murphy who kinda talked his way out of prison. He got out in 1986 and is now living in Crystal River, Fl.
Bringing the thread back because this is a good read: https://ig.ny.gov/sites/default/files/pdfs/DOCCS%20Clinton%20Report%20FINAL_1.pdf
I happened upon it in the New Yorker’s list of favorite books in 2016: http://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/the-books-we-loved-in-2016 It’s not actually a book, it’s a very well-written report from the office of the NY Inspector General. It covers the escape itself in great detail and answers some of the questions we had about how in the world the whole thing happened. I’d like to see Catherine Scott get a true crime book contract out of this. She writes well! The New Yorker critic calls it “a stunning and absorbing, rollicking, tragic, unbelievable but true account of the lives of Americans in America.”
Sounds very interesting. I’ll have to read it as H was involved in search as Director of Emergency Comm for the state.