![]() ![]() Another local was recently asked by an outsider, "Is everybody in that town that dumb?" "It's insulting - they have everyone look like a bunch of hillbillies," one local told the Post. Understandably, the citizens of Dannemora have some mixed feelings about the show, and its depiction of the town, as well. If I had to do it over, I would have told somebody.Everyone thinks I'm just a whore who wanted it." Although she previously confessed to investigators she got "caught up in the fantasy" of another life with the two men, she now claims, "I don't remember saying that." They took advantage of my kindness," she said by way of explaining why she smuggled in hacksaw blades and a drill for them. She instead paints a picture of herself as a victim who was scared of the men, not a willing accomplice who plotted to run away with them (and kill her husband). ![]() She was also investigated before the breakout for a "sexual incident" with Sweat, but Mitchell now denies any sex occurred. Mitchell previously admitted to having oral sex with both men, while other prison workers have testified that she had sex with both men on multiple occasions. All he cares about is making millions off me. "Ben Stiller is a son-of-a-bitch liar just like the rest of the world. In her first major interview since the show premiered, she railed to the NY Post about the way Stiller depicted her in the series: "I never had sex with them," she said. It's an engrossing retelling of an exhilarating escape attempt that does not shy away from the darkest, most complicated aspects of its three primary subjects (and was one of our favorite shows of the year)-but of course, not everyone was thrilled with the series. © 2023 NYP Holdings, Inc.Last month, Showtime premiered the Ben Stiller-directed miniseries Escape At Dannemora, which depicts how convicted murderers Richard Matt and David Sweat, with the help of prison tailor shop supervisor Joyce 'Tilly' Mitchell, staged a daring breakout of Clinton Correctional Facility in 2015. David Sweat (left) and Richard Matt, the prisoners who escaped AP ![]() Sweat was captured two days later near the Canadian border, after being shot and wounded by a state trooper. The escape, which echoed the prison break in 1994’s “The Shawshank Redemption,” sparked a 23-day manhunt during which Matt was fatally shot by a federal Border Patrol agent in a heavily wooded area near Lake Titus. Mitchell smuggled in hacksaw blades and chisels that Sweat used to carve through his cell wall, allowing him to roam around the prison at night and find a large steam pipe through which he and Matt escaped on June 6, 2015.Īlthough she had promised to meet them with a getaway car and a sawed-off shotgun, Mitchell had a panic attack and went to the hospital instead, she told NBC. “I was going through a depression, and I guess they saw my weakness. “I was going through a time where I didn’t feel like my husband loved me anymore,” she told since-disgraced NBC host Matt Lauer while awaiting sentencing in 2015. Mitchell - who was portrayed by Patricia Arquette in the award-winning Showtime series “ Escape at Dannemora” - told investigators she performed oral sex on Matt and provided nude photos of herself for his pal Sweat, but insisted she did so out of fear. She was working as a supervisor in the tailor shop at the Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora when she befriended Richard Matt and David Sweat, both serving life sentences for murder. No one answered the door Thursday afternoon at the Mitchells’ house in upstate Dickinson Center, near the Canadian border, although someone pulled a curtain shut when a dog started barking from behind a window. It was unclear where Mitchell, 55, went following her release, but her long-suffering husband, Lyle, has said he wanted “her home where she belongs.” New York Post cover featuring Joyce Mitchell vmodica ![]() She’d been denied parole three times, but was granted a conditional release for good behavior that got her sprung before the June 2022 expiration of her seven-year sentence for promoting prison contraband, the department said. Joyce “Tillie” Mitchell - known as the “Shawskank” for her role in the underground escape - walked out of the all-women Bedford Hills Correctional Facility around 8:30 a.m., according to the state Department of Corrections. The lovelorn seamstress who helped two killers break out of a maximum-security lockup - but chickened out of plans to join them on the run - was released from prison Thursday after more than four years. ![]()
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