Gene Palmer,57, is the second employee at the Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora to be detained over the dramatic escape of Richard Matt and David Sweat on June 6. Palmer is charged with tampering with physical evidence, introducing dangerous contraband into prison, both felonies, and a misdemeanor charge of official misconduct for accepting the paintings in return for the contraband, the documents showed.
Mitchell has pleaded not guilty. Palmer admitted passing on the meat but had no idea it was concealing contraband, Palmer’s attorney Andrew Brockway said. Brockway added that his client had been “completely cooperative with the investigation” and “wants these individuals caught.”
More than a decade ago Palmer talked about life as a corrections officer inside the Dannemora prison in an interview with North Country Public Radio.
“With the money they pay you’ll go bald, you’ll have high blood pressure, you’ll become an alcoholic, you’ll divorce and then you’ll kill yourself,” he said, calling Dannemora as a “negative” environment.
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