ALBANY The surviving inmate who escaped from a maximum-security prison in northern New York was arraigned Thursday on criminal charges related to his escape, despite already serving a life sentence.

David Sweat is a convicted murderer who, alongside Richard Matt, escaped from Clinton Correctional Facility in 2015. The successful escape led to a 22-day-long manhunt, which ultimately cost New York ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Inmates chop wood for a sweat lodge ceremony at the South Dakota State Penitentiary on Aug. 17, 2018, in Sioux Falls. (Briana ...

A judge this week authorized New York’s corrections department to force-feed inmate David Sweat, a convicted murderer who escaped from an upstate New York prison in 2015, after he staged a hunger ...