![]() (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images) Show More Show Less 98 of105 Sunday, June 28. ![]() More than 1,000 State Police, Border Patrol, correction officers, FBI and other law enforcement agencies have been searching for the pair since they were discovered missing from a prison in nearby Dannemora on June 6. On Friday Richard Matt, who escaped with Sweat, was shot and killed in the same area. Sweat was shot by a State Police officer and taken into custody in Constable, New York, north of Malone and near the Canadian border. MALONE, NY - JUNE 28: Residents gather outside the emergency room of the Alice Hyde Medical Center after convicted murderer David Sweat was brought in with gunshot wounds following his capture on Jin Constable, New York. Andrew Burton Show More Show Lessĩ6 of105 97 of105 Sunday, June 28. Guess and the other law enforcement officials pleaded for the public's continuing assistance and patience during an afternoon news conference. State Police Troop B Commander Charles E. Law enforcement officials announced that the search for the two escapees is being broadened because there is no confirmation the two men are in the area near the village of Dannemora. Mark Lennihan Show More Show Less 59 of105 Wednesday, June 17 Their assignment on the honor block also allowed them to wear and keep regular clothing other than their prison uniforms, which may have been critical in their escape when they clambered out of a sewer manhole a block from the prison on June 6. The looser restrictions on the honor block tier may have been a factor in the meticulous escape plan because the inmates in that section of the prison were able to cook, visit one another's cells and were generally given more liberties than inmates in other areas of the prison. The good-behavior tier that housed the two former inmates at Clinton Correctional Facility was reverted to a regular prison block and no longer has the looser rules it did before the escape, according to a law enforcement source.
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