For escapee, jail will mean 23 hours every day in a cell

ROMULUS, N.Y. (AP) — The surviving escapee from a prison break and three-week manhunt will spend 23 hours a day in a maximum-security cell, much more confined than he and a fellow murder convict were in the prison from which they managed a getaway, according to officials.

David Sweat, 35, who was shot and wounded during his June 28 capture, was taken  to the infirmary at the Five Points Correctional Facility in the town of Romulus, according to the state Department of Corrections and Community Supervision.

After time in the infirmary for a medical evaluation, he’ll be among the up to 150 men held in its Special Housing Unit, where each prisoner sleeps, eats, washes and spends nearly all his time in a 105-square-foot cell with a bed, a writing platform, a toilet, a sink and a shower.

The inmates generally are allowed out of their cells to exercise for an hour a day.

Authorities said Matt and Sweat cut through their adjoining cell wall at the Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora, N.Y., on June 6. They then climbed down catwalks to tunnels, broke through a brick wall, cut into and out of a steam pipe and cut a chain holding a manhole cover outside the prison to get away, according to officials.

Sweat is serving a life sentence for killing a sheriff’s deputy.

Matt, 49, was shot dead when a U.S. border patrol team caught up with him June 26. He was serving 25 years to life after being convicted of kidnapping and dismembering his former boss.