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Ex-correctional officer: NY prison escape could have been stopped

A former prison guard who worked at Clinton Correctional Facility, from which convicted murderers Richard Matt and David Sweat escaped, says he knew the fugitives, as well as the couple now at the center of the investigation, reports CBS News correspondent Michelle Miller.

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