Member of the Month

KilaTsunami
October, 2024

Online

Welcome to the Newschoolers forums! You may read the forums as a guest, however you must be a registered member to post. Register to become a member today!

Two convicted murderers escape max security prison in NY

profile picture
Mingg
Posts: 13978 - Karma: 49,320
Full article:

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/08/nyregion/convicts-escape-prison-in-upstate-new-york.html?_r=0

"The State Police and other law enforcement agencies were hunting for two fugitive murderers on Sunday morning in the wilderness and rural communities of northern New York, a day after the two men escaped from the maximum-security state prison here.

Duping guards with dummies fashioned out of sweatshirts and using power tools to drill out of their cells, the men made their getaway late Friday or early Saturday, emerging on the other side of the prison’s 30-foot-tall walls, officials said."

This also isn't the first time one of the guys has escaped from Prison as well.
Jun 7 2015 2:00PM
282 124
profile picture
Mingg
Posts: 13978 - Karma: 49,320
.lenconThanks Ming, your post explained it nicely.

So it depends on execution too then, and you still have to disregard the judicial process I guess. But if you did firing squad that is much cheaper than keeping an inmate in a cell for a month. Maybe if we skipped the whole judicialy process that last months and realized people are killers we wouldn't spend so much money. I mean that dude who shot everyone in Colorado at the movie theater in batman is still on trial. That was like 5 years ago


You can't rush the process though. Imagine if the person was actually innocent and we were too quick to execute them only to find out later someone else was to blame. It's there to protect people and with something like the death penalty you need to be 100% sure before acting.
Jun 10 2015 1:39PM
1 2
profile picture
Charlie_Kelly
Posts: 11954 - Karma: 12,298
MinggYou can't rush the process though. Imagine if the person was actually innocent and we were too quick to execute them only to find out later someone else was to blame. It's there to protect people and with something like the death penalty you need to be 100% sure before acting.


Ehh I feel like if there is hard evidence (like video) the person should be put down as fast as possible. Bring back firing squads!
Jun 10 2015 2:57PM
1 0
profile picture
Mingg
Posts: 13978 - Karma: 49,320
Granite_StateEhh I feel like if there is hard evidence (like video) the person should be put down as fast as possible. Bring back firing squads!


Yeah true, maybe that shortens the time between. Even then I think they should still have at least some kind of process to ensure they have the right person. Executing someone who is innocent would be fuckin horrible.
Jun 10 2015 3:05PM
1 3
profile picture
.lencon
Posts: 6753 - Karma: 17,183
MinggYou can't rush the process though. Imagine if the person was actually innocent and we were too quick to execute them only to find out later someone else was to blame. It's there to protect people and with something like the death penalty you need to be 100% sure before acting.


Granite_StateEhh I feel like if there is hard evidence (like video) the person should be put down as fast as possible. Bring back firing squads!


^^^ yeah that. I mean the guy from Colorado is obviously guilty from the start and he's still alive.
Jun 10 2015 3:45PM
0 0
profile picture
d00d
Posts: 2687 - Karma: 7,086
Can't even imagine having done that successfully with only two people... Prison Break needed like 8 or something.
Jun 10 2015 3:57PM
0 0
profile picture
Rusticles
Posts: 2180 - Karma: 1,337
Granite_StateEhh I feel like if there is hard evidence (like video) the person should be put down as fast as possible. Bring back firing squads!


MinggYeah true, maybe that shortens the time between. Even then I think they should still have at least some kind of process to ensure they have the right person. Executing someone who is innocent would be fuckin horrible.


Isn't there some type of express lane in Texas for these circumstances.
Jun 10 2015 4:07PM
1 0
profile picture
supersquid
Posts: 1430 - Karma: 2,545
Guard- "hey prisoner no power tools"
Prisoner "Thats my toothbrush "
Jun 10 2015 6:03PM
3 1
profile picture
Mingg
Posts: 13978 - Karma: 49,320
RusticlesIsn't there some type of express lane in Texas for these circumstances.


It's Texas, so probably.
Jun 10 2015 6:12PM
0 1
profile picture
californiagrown
Posts: 9794 - Karma: 2,014
.lenconThanks Ming, your post explained it nicely.

So it depends on execution too then, and you still have to disregard the judicial process I guess. But if you did firing squad that is much cheaper than keeping an inmate in a cell for a month. Maybe if we skipped the whole judicialy process that last months and realized people are killers we wouldn't spend so much money. I mean that dude who shot everyone in Colorado at the movie theater in batman is still on trial. That was like 5 years ago

Should the mentally Ill be executed for crimes committed while Ill?
Jun 10 2015 7:07PM
0 0
profile picture
.lencon
Posts: 6753 - Karma: 17,183
californiagrownShould the mentally Ill be executed for crimes committed while Ill?


Should they?
Jun 10 2015 7:13PM
0 0
profile picture
Mingg
Posts: 13978 - Karma: 49,320


ahahahahahahaha
Jun 11 2015 1:15AM
2 2
profile picture
lurking
Posts: 2222 - Karma: 6,788
californiagrownShould the mentally Ill be executed for crimes committed while Ill?


Jun 11 2015 1:25AM
1 0
profile picture
californiagrown
Posts: 9794 - Karma: 2,014
loganschnur


Are there definitive lab tests proving mental illness, or are there tests based upon subjective characteristics and behaviors? One doc's clinically insane is another doc's plain old evil.

If we just start zapping folks based purely on the severity of the crime not takng into account mitigating circumstances, we could be killing a lot of folks who just need a pill a day to be a fit, healthy, upstanding citizen.
Jun 11 2015 3:43AM
0 0
profile picture
Mingg
Posts: 13978 - Karma: 49,320
californiagrownAre there definitive lab tests proving mental illness, or are there tests based upon subjective characteristics and behaviors? One doc's clinically insane is another doc's plain old evil.

If we just start zapping folks based purely on the severity of the crime not takng into account mitigating circumstances, we could be killing a lot of folks who just need a pill a day to be a fit, healthy, upstanding citizen.


I feel like most people who commit first degree murder have some degree of mental illness or instability though. I just don't see how anyone who is "healthy" or "stabile" could possibly carry out a murder.
Jun 11 2015 3:55AM
1 2
profile picture
lurking
Posts: 2222 - Karma: 6,788
MinggI feel like most people who commit first degree murder have some degree of mental illness or instability though. I just don't see how anyone who is "healthy" or "stabile" could possibly carry out a murder.


Well seeing as he killed 12 people and injured about 90 more, he's too fucked to actually be able to recover with "treatment", as well as the fact that he needs to be punished for taking the lives of 12 other people. We don't need any more psychos in the populace than we already have. And the fact that the trial has just started after he "allegedly" committed the crime over 3 years ago is disgusting and proves how bad we as an American populace are at making decisions.
Jun 11 2015 9:27AM
0 0
profile picture
Steezy_G
Posts: 64 - Karma: 82
NikolausMaybe prisoners wouldn't be so prone to escape if prison conditions weren't so awful. Prisons are supposed to be rehabilitation facilities, not hell.


Your a fucking idiot
Jun 11 2015 9:43AM
2 1
profile picture
californiagrown
Posts: 9794 - Karma: 2,014
loganschnurWell seeing as he killed 12 people and injured about 90 more, he's too fucked to actually be able to recover with "treatment", as well as the fact that he needs to be punished for taking the lives of 12 other people. We don't need any more psychos in the populace than we already have. And the fact that the trial has just started after he "allegedly" committed the crime over 3 years ago is disgusting and proves how bad we as an American populace are at making decisions.

And I'm sure you are fully qualified to to form the medical opinion that he is toofucked up to recover haha.
Jun 11 2015 10:17AM
0 0
profile picture
GayWolf420
Posts: 37409 - Karma: 120,395
the dude who tortured/murdered his old boss should be put in the ground. Holy shit, what a brutal fucker.
Jun 11 2015 10:20AM
0 0
profile picture
GayWolf420
Posts: 37409 - Karma: 120,395
DeebieSkeebiesthe dude who tortured/murdered his old boss should be put in the ground. Holy shit, what a brutal fucker.


And its kinda fucked up people sort of rooting for these guys to get away. That one dude is pure fuckin evil.
Jun 11 2015 10:22AM
2 0
profile picture
Brocka_Flocka
Posts: 1215 - Karma: 8,742
Was this at Shawshank Prison?
Jun 11 2015 10:43AM
0 0
profile picture
Nikolaus
Posts: 863 - Karma: 995
Steezy_GYour a fucking idiot


*you're
Jun 11 2015 2:29PM
4 0
profile picture
daOyster
Posts: 329 - Karma: 298
I don't know how they even call that prison high security besides the multitudes of fences. They're lacking a lot of stuff a modern high security prison would. For example, there were fewer surveillance cameras there then most normal prisons have. Almost none along their route, obviously excluding inside the pipe. I get it's an old prison, but they should still be held up to modern standards in technology if they're high security. And how does a prisoner cut through their wall when they get checked every 2 hours. And a guard isn't allowed to shine their flashlight in the cells during sleeping hours. Like wtf?
It's starting to sound like the guards there are a lot more relaxed then they should be.
Jun 11 2015 4:28PM
0 0
profile picture
Steezy_G
Posts: 64 - Karma: 82
DeebieSkeebiesAnd its kinda fucked up people sort of rooting for these guys to get away. That one dude is pure fuckin evil.


And they other guy shot a cop like 15 times
Jun 11 2015 11:23PM
0 0
profile picture
theabortionator
Posts: 51674 - Karma: 162,646
They done shot one dead btw. It was blowing up on my facebook earlier. Upstate NY lyfeeeee
Jun 26 2015 6:31PM
0 0
profile picture
Mingg
Posts: 13978 - Karma: 49,320
^ Saw that earlier. Pretty fucked up. I guess the guy had shot at someone's camper and then they called the cops and everything. I don't get how people are that stupid...You escape from prison, stay in the same area of said prison, and then shoot at someone...Like, that's just asking to get caught. They had 5-6 hours if I remember correctly before anyone knew they were missing. They could have easily gotten over the border. Kinda interested in why they didn't do that.
Jun 26 2015 6:44PM
0 1
profile picture
OregonDead
Posts: 6900 - Karma: 24,611
^Pure stupidity on the part of these convicts. I bet the other guy doesn't survive through the weekend.
Jun 26 2015 6:49PM
0 0
profile picture
Mingg
Posts: 13978 - Karma: 49,320
OregonDead^Pure stupidity on the part of these convicts. I bet the other guy doesn't survive through the weekend.


Yeah true. it's just confusing as shit because they were smart enough to escape a max security prison(granted we now know that prison workers helped, but still). If you're smart enough to escape in whatever way, you should have at least some sense to not stay close by or not do anything to get the cops called on you like shooting at people and shit.
Jun 26 2015 6:55PM
0 1
profile picture
theabortionator
Posts: 51674 - Karma: 162,646
second shot
Jun 28 2015 4:02PM
0 0
profile picture
Finkle
Posts: 959 - Karma: 850
I live 15 minutes away from CC. This has been hell for up here for the last month. My father worked at Clinton Correctional for 23 years. Glad He is out and now at the supermax in Malone (even though Sweat will probably end up at Upstate). The CO's are going through a witch hunt now. it's a shame that some of these employees have worked 20+ years and may loose all retirement. The media is making the prison out to be a joke. I grew up knowing CO's all my life and they are some of the strongest mentally peoples I have ever met. The shit they see in that prison would give you nightmares.
Jul 1 2015 9:49AM
2 0
profile picture
daOyster
Posts: 329 - Karma: 298
Funny that Matt was killed by a Vermont boarder patrol officer and not by any New York officers. David Sweat is saying that they didn't use power tools and only a hacksaw blade to cut through the steel pipe. I wanna know how they managed that.
Jul 1 2015 7:23PM
0 0
profile picture
tripnip
Posts: 1882 - Karma: 482
FinkleI live 15 minutes away from CC. This has been hell for up here for the last month. My father worked at Clinton Correctional for 23 years. Glad He is out and now at the supermax in Malone (even though Sweat will probably end up at Upstate). The CO's are going through a witch hunt now. it's a shame that some of these employees have worked 20+ years and may loose all retirement. The media is making the prison out to be a joke. I grew up knowing CO's all my life and they are some of the strongest mentally peoples I have ever met. The shit they see in that prison would give you nightmares.


Best of luck I hope things work out. I cant imagine that job.
Jul 1 2015 10:26PM
0 0
All times are Eastern (-5)