Prison Escapee David Sweat Returns to Max Security for First Time in 4 Weeks

[brooklynite]

Last edited Mon Jul 6, 2015, 02:03 PM - Edit history (1)

Source: NBC News

Captured prison escapee David Sweat is back in a maximum security prison for the first time in nearly a month, according to the New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision.

Sweat, 35, was released from Albany Medical Center early Sunday morning and brought to Five Points Correctional Facility in Romulus, New York.

He had been receiving treatment in the hospital for a week after he was shot twice in the torso by a state trooper near the Canadian border last Sunday, ending a weeks-long manhunt for Sweat, who escaped from Clinton Correctional Facility with murderer Richard Matt on June 6. Matt was shot dead during the exhaustive manhunt for the fugitives.

Read more: http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/new-york-prison-escape/prison-escapee-david-sweat-returns-max-security-prison-first-time-n386941

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Summer vacations are always nice, but at some point you have to head home...

[Romeo.lima333]

1. this is something the death penalty prevents

[eggplant]

3. what's your point?

[EL34x4]

2. He survived and can now testify against the woman who helped him escape

Not sure what, if any, deal they can cut for his cooperation. Maybe better commissary privileges or something like that.

I have little doubt she was hoping and praying he'd meet the same fate as his accomplice.

[maindawg]

4. Here is what I learned

During the course of events we learned all about Richard Matt. We learned that he has a son a daughter a brother and he came from Tonawanda NY where he was a bully who terrorized the other children in town.
But we never learned anything about Davis Sweat. Thats probably because there is nothing to tell. Nothing to tell but alot to learn. He most likely grew up in foster care, group homes and juvenile detention centers.
He committed an extreme act of violence. We learned that. He was a very angry young man. He is a product of our culture. And of our system. A product of how we deal with children who are unwanted because of any number of reasons.
Because it is always difficult and sometimes impossible to adjust and assimilate especially when they ask you to do that over and over again. Thats what we do, we expect children to assimilate instantly. When they dont , we lock them in juvenile hall.
Because we dont expect them to succeed. We expect them to be inmates. We have 2.3 million inmates in America. We have a huge prison industrial complex and we must have warm bodies to fill these prisons. We are developing them in our juvenile hall, in our foster care programs our group homes.
Kids get angry because they have no emotional support. No moral support. First they feel hurt, wounded, then they get pissed off then they act. They wind up committing a violent crime, an innocent person is hurt, and they become David Sweat. Now we pay about 47,000 dollars a year to accommodate
Mr Sweat. He will probably receive hundreds of letters and gifts from fans and well wishers all over the world. Other lonely people house wives, authors, and poets. He is a celebrity now.
He could probably pay for his own upkeep if they allowed that.
He lives in a 10 ft by 10 room with a bed a toilet a sink a shower[yes he has his own private shower no more worrying about dropping the soap] and get this, a writing desk. For the thousands of letters he will have to write to his fans.
So thats my take at least.

[djg21]

6. You shouldn't make things up

to support your preconceived notions and agenda. The "likelies" and "probablies" you offer are a dead giveaway.

The FACTS are that David Sweat is a ruthless, calculating and manipulative career criminal, if not a sociopath, who would without hesitation kill again to advance his own interests.

http://www.pressconnects.com/story/news/2015/06/09/escaped-prisoners-mother-speaks-son/28770547/

http://www.pressconnects.com/story/news/public-safety/2015/06/10/david-sweats-brutal-path-prison/71017500/

There is no rehabilitating Mr. Sweat.

While I am opposed to the death penalty because innocents can be and have been executed, and because our justice system is not infallible, I have no ideological problem with the premise that individuals such as Sweat who unquestionably have committed heinous crimes and pose a clear danger to others (even other prisoners) can cede the right to live among us. The world would be a safer and better place without Mr. Sweat in it.

[maindawg]

8. You should read the article you posted

David and an older sister spent time in foster care, she said, and David lived at a group home in Binghamton where she said he regularly ran away.

So his older sister was also a problem child huh. I see, and his poor mom did the best she could. Not her fault he children went wrong. It appears that I was right and it was worse than I thought. Re read my diagnosis, I am dead on.
I am not afraid to show that I have compassion for these children. I dont know is Sweat is a psychopath or just a very damaged human being, but I can feel very comfortable with myself when I assure you that people who have been abused deserve consideration of that fact.

[Nye Bevan]

5. I bet if he asks for a rock hammer and Rita Hayworth poster

they will say "no".

[restorefreedom]

7. also nix on the big hunk of ground hamburger. n/t