ALBANY, N.Y. - Former fugitive David Sweat is out of a prison infirmary and facing new disciplinary charges stemming from his escape from an upstate New York correctional facility.
State prison officials said Wednesday the 35-year-old murderer is being housed at the Special Housing Unit at Five Points Correctional Facility in central New York. Inmates in that unit are kept in solitary cells for 23 hours a day.
The disciplinary charges relate to misconduct as an inmate and are separate from any criminal charges that could be filed against Sweat.
Sweat and fellow convicted murderer Richard Matt escaped from Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora in early June.
Matt was shot dead on June 26. Sweat was shot by a trooper and captured two days later near the Canadian border.
