Billboards are going up all over the Northeast with the photos of the two inmates who escaped from the Clinton Correctional Facility over the weekend. David Sweat, 34 and Richard Matt, 48, are both convicted murderers and considered armed and dangerous. The prison is located in New York, close to the Canadian border, and authorities have placed the escapee’s images on 50 billboards all around the state as well as in Massachusetts and Pennsylvania. A prison employee, accused of supplying tools to the men to aid in their escape, is currently in jail. The men allegedly used the tools to cut through a steel wall, get into a steam pipe and escape out of a man hole a few blocks from the prison. Sweat is described as a white male, 5’11”, 165 lbs., with brown hair and green eyes. Sweat also has tattoos on his left bicep and right fingers. Matt is also a white male, 6 feet tall with black hair and hazel eyes. Matt has several tattoos, including the phrase “Mexico Forever” on his back, a heart on his chest and left shoulder, as well as a Marine Corps insignia on his right shoulder. Anyone with information is asked to call the New York State Police at 1-800-GIVETIP. So far, the search for the escapees has been confined to the Northeast, no word on whether it will be expanded to include Atlanta and areas in the Southeast.
