Police: Corrections worker was getaway driver for Anson Co....

ANSON CO. — The corrections worker who helped an Anson County inmate escape over the weekend was waiting outside the fence with a getaway car, according to Polkton police.

Kristopher McNeil, 29, was recaptured just before 11 p.m. Sunday near the Davidson and Forsyth county line.

McNeil escaped Brown Creek Correctional Institute, in Polkton, early Saturday after he scaled a fence, authorities said. He was serving a 14-year sentence for second-degree murder.

An inmate who authorities say escaped from an Anson Co. prison with the help of a prison employee has been recaptured,...
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A day later, a 33-year-old prison kitchen worker was charged with helping him escape. Kendra Miller is facing charges of having sex with an inmate, felony aiding and abetting, felony harboring an escapee and providing a phone to an inmate.

Miller was hired in December as a food services worker and she prepared inmate meals, officials said. She was still under a beginning two-year probationary status as an employee.

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Officials told Channel 9 that McNeil also worked in the prison's kitchen.

Warrants obtained by Channel 9 Monday showed that Miller lived in Hamlet, an around 45-minute drive from Brown Creek, where she worked.

Citizens recognized McNeil from media reports and called law enforcement late Sunday, according to a Department of Public Safety spokeswoman.

He was picked up walking along Old Highway 52 near the Davidson/Forsyth county line in central North Carolina, more than 80 miles north of Polkton where he'd been incarcerated in the Brown Creek Correctional Institution, she said.

"We appreciate the many law enforcement agencies working closely by the department's side working to get McNeil back in custody," Director of Prisons George Solomon said in a statement. "We are especially grateful to the citizens who called in tips and anyone who aided in his capture without anyone getting hurt."

Details of McNeil's escape and capture came as law officers shot and captured the second of two convicted murderers who broke out of a maximum-security prison in northern New York three weeks ago.

Prosecutors said Joyce Mitchell, a prison tailoring shop instructor at the Clinton Correctional Facility who got close to the men while working with them, was charged with promoting prison contraband, which authorities said included hacksaw blades and chisels. She agreed to be their getaway driver after their escape, but backed out. Mitchell has pleaded not guilty to the charges.

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