Joyce Mitchell Ethical Violations

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Many personnel in the criminal justice system have been punished for legal/ethical violations. Joyce Mitchell, who was a correctional officer at a New York prison, is one of those people. Joyce Mitchell helped David Sweat and Richard Matt create a plan to escape from a maximum security prison where they were serving the sentence in upstate New York. They had also planned to kill Joyce’s husband after Joyce first spilled him two pills to knock him out. She bought them contraband into the prison by buying whatever they requested and sneaking it by concealing items her purse. Maximum security prisons like this one (Clinton Correctional Facility) are meant to keep inmates under close supervision and very tight parameters. Matt, (one of Sweat’s

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