'Escape at Dannemora': The true story behind the Clinton Correctional Facility riots after Richard Matt and David Sweat's escape

A little over 2 months after the escape of Richard Matt and David Sweat, the Clinton Correctional Facility was put on lockdown after two major brawls broke out between prisoners.

The Ben Stiller-directed ongoing dark prison drama 'Escape at Dannemora,' about the infamous 2015 Clinton Correction Facility escape, has managed to attract a lot of attention, given how sensational and cut out for Hollywood the real-life incident was.

At the time, the media had also contributed to spicing up the gritty story of inmates Richard Matt (played by Benicio del Toro) and David Sweat (played by Paul Dano) tunneling out of the prison using tools supplied by prison employee Joyce 'Tilly' Mitchell (Patricia Arquette).

The fact that the two had conned Tilly using sexual gratification only proved to be a favorable bonus for the story to absolutely blow up. But a lesser known fact is that right after the two had managed to escape, something else blew up too within the walls of the facility they were confined in.

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