Watchdog agency sees turnaround in 'culture of carelessness' that led to prison escape

Watchdog agency sees turnaround in 'culture of carelessness' that led to prison escape

New York State Inspector General Lucy Lang said she is hopeful "the facilities in the North Country are doing all they can to prevent this kind of catastrophe from occurring again."

Inspector General's Investigation on Prison Escape

The question everyone wanted to know after the Dannemora escape was how the two killers were able to break out of a maximum-security prison. In 2015, Governor Andrew Cuomo ordered the state’s inspector general to launch an investigation that interviewed more than 175 people and found many lapses in security at the prison. Front gate searches of staff that should have caught the hacksaw blades and tools weren’t happening. Night counts were “gross…