Clinton Correctional Facility Analysis

In Clinton Correctional Facility (a maximum security prison) in New York, two inmates escaped. On June 6th of 2015, inmates Richard Matt and David Sweat were reported to have escaped the prison. After twenty three days Sweat was captured and in the custody of FBI, his other fellow inmate Matt was shot and killed by authorities. The investigation of the escapees showed underlying problems and corrections in the facilities itself. Corruption such as; heroin dealing from inmates to inmates, relationships between inmates and the guards, and lastly the reason for such a security lapse allowing for the convicts to escape.
Investigators probed the question whether the two convicts could be a part of an allege drug trafficking ring. It was found out that the two had more privileges than most of the other prisoners in the facility. Clinton Correctional Facility …show more content…
Conversations between the guards and the convicts could have allowed them to gain knowledge on such things, helping them. It’s worrisome to think about such things are happening as a maximum security. It makes you wonder what else goes in other prisons. Are things worse? Are the facilities more corrupt then the people that stay in them?
I wonder how hard it really to go prison is. In a world we live in today many Americans are in over their head in debt. When you go to prison you have nothing to worry about except for possibly getting your butt handed to you. Facilities seem to not be that too terrible of place to stay in. The tax payers pay for it, people commit crimes and it comes out of everyone else’s pocket. While you could be struggling to afford your bills these criminals are living the life with three meals, drugs, outside time, social evenings with one another etc. How is fair? You get more punished for the crime they