In an audacious escape, that has been widely liked to the plot of a Hollywood movie, two detainees have broken out of a maximum security New York prison.
State police and other law officials have begun an expansive search; setting up road blocks, monitoring from the air and searching door-to-door.
The police have vowed to leave “no stone unturned” in looking for the escaped convicts who they described as dangerous.
New York is offering 100,000 USD (89,761 euro) reward for information leading to their capture.
Richard Matt, 48 and David Sweat, 34 were found to have escaped from Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora on Saturday morning.
Today we announced $100,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of escaped inmates: http://t.co/wBLO7mU9aq pic.twitter.com/iPQSR2MVyV— Andrew Cuomo (@NYGovCuomo) June 7, 2015
It is the first escape from the facility, which is only 30 km south of the Canadian border, since 1865.
The two men, in adjoining cells, used power
