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• New York prison guard gets six months in jail after pleading guilty to helping inmates escape

  A New York correction officer, who has pleaded guilty on Monday to helping two convicts to escape, has been sentences to six months in prison.

• New York prison escapee, David Sweat, sentenced to life in prison; Apologized for the trouble he made

  David Sweat, the convicted killer and escapee was given maximum penalty by the Clinton County Court. After the hearing, Sweat apologized for the fear and trauma he caused to the community.

• New York woman gets seven years prison for helping inmates escape

  A prison employee who helped two convicted murderers escape from a maximum security prison in upstate New York was sentenced on Monday to up to 7 years behind bars for providing the inmates with tools used in their daring break-out.

• Manhunt for remaining New York prison escapee intensifies

  A manhunt for a convicted murderer who escaped from a New York state maximum security prison focused on a rural area near the Canadian border on Saturday, a day after his fellow escapee was killed.

• Police converge on NY towns where escaped prisoners said sighted

  Heavily-armed police converged on towns in western New York state on Saturday to investigate possible sightings of two convicted murderers who escaped a maximum-security prison two weeks ago, police said.

• NY escape highlights relationships between inmates, prison employees

  Reports that a sexual relationship had developed between two escaped New York inmates and a prison employee who has been charged with helping them break out 11 days ago illustrates the difficulties of policing relationships within prisons.

• Manhunt for two New York prison escapees focuses on nearby woods

  Hundreds of law enforcement agents hunting for two upstate New York prison escapees focused their search on Thursday on a heavily wooded area just a few miles from the maximum security facility where they broke out last week, police said.

• Murderers who escaped from New York prison may have had help

  Two convicted murderers who used power tools to break out of a maximum security New York prison may have had help, and they left a taunting note for their jailors to "Have a nice day," authorities said on Sunday.