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In a story published Sunday, the Times reports that there were no guards on the watch inside two of the prison's 35-foot high towers that overlook the manhole outside the facility that the escapees climbed out from after climbing through underground tunnels in the prison.
Further, those tunnels were no longer being inspected on a regular basis, the Times reports.
Corrections officers also rarely shined lights over inmates' faces during hourly bed checks, the Times reports, allowing the prisoners to get away with stuffing their beds to make it look like they were sleeping.
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Meanwhile, in another shift in the manhunt, police are now focusing on an area west of Clinton Correctional Facility in their pursuit of the escapees. This comes after police combed through Friendship, N.Y., located about 350 miles southwest of the prison, over the weekend following a report of two men spotted on Saturday afternoon near the railroad line and an overpass to Interstate 86.
The search is now centered on Owls Head in Franklin County, about 20-25 miles west of the prison, where police reportedly found DNA matching the suspects inside a cabin that had been broken into in the Saranac Lake area.
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