NY prison escapee David Sweat back behind bars after a week in hospital

After spending three weeks on the run and one in the hospital, escaped prisoner David Sweat is back in a maximum security prison. He was transferred Sunday to the Five Points Correctional Facility in New York, according to the State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision (DOCCS). This time, the level of attention focused on Mr. Sweat will be heightened. Whereas prior to his breakout from Clinton Correctional Facility Sweat had lived in “honor housing,” where well-behaved inmates were trusted with limited privileges, Sweat’s freedom at Five Points will be severely abridged.

Each of the 150 cells in the Special Housing Unit comes furnished with the basics for all-day confinement: a bed, a toilet, a sink, a writing platform, and a shower that the prison controls to limit movement.

A DOCCS spokesman told US media.

He will spend the first 24 hours at Five Points in the infirmary for a medical evaluation, DOCCS said in a statement. Sweat will then be placed in the facility’s Special Housing Unit, where he will be locked in a single-occupancy cell for 23 hours a day. He will also be on active suicide watch. n honor housing at Dannemora, Sweat and fellow escapee Richard Matt enjoyed the freedom to cook their own meals, wear some street clothing, move around the prison and the yard, and use the television and phone with fewer restrictions. State troopers found and killed Mr. Matt two days before catching Sweat.