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Escapee David Sweat Released From Hospital, Assigned To New Prison

ALBANY, N.Y. -- David Sweat, one of two convicted murderers who escaped from the upstate Clinton Correctional Facility on June 6, was released from Albany Medical Center overnight Sunday and transferred to a new maximum security prison.

Five Points Correctional Facility, a maximum-security facility in Romulus, N. Y., about 60 miles southwest of Syracuse.

Five Points Correctional Facility, a maximum-security facility in Romulus, N. Y., about 60 miles southwest of Syracuse.

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David Sweat will be confined in a single cell 23 hours a day.

David Sweat will be confined in a single cell 23 hours a day.

Photo Credit: New York State Police

The 35-year-old Sweat was shot and captured by New York State Police on June 28 in Constable, N.Y., less than two miles south of the Canadian border. He was apprehended two days after fellow escapee Richard Matt was shot and killed by police in Duane, N.Y., just south of a cabin in Malone, N.Y., the two were hiding out in.

Sweat, who was treated for two gunshot wounds near each shoulder, has been transferred to Five Points Correctional Facility, a maximum-security prison in Romulus, N. Y., in Seneca County, according to the state Department of Corrections and Community Supervision. The prison is about 60 miles southwest of Syracuse.

He was released from Albany Medical Center at about 3 a.m. Sunday, according to localsyr.com. After a 24-hour evaluation period at the Five Points Correctional Facility, which opened in 2000, Sweat will be put in a single cell in a special housing unit in which prisoners are confined for 23 hours a day and may be under suicide watch, according to the report.

Click here to read the full localsyr.com report.

 

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