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The Latest: Focus of search for escaped inmates shifts north

A member of Clinton Count Sheriff's department stand guard outside the Plattsburgh courthouse, Thursday, June 25, 2015, in Plattsburgh, N.Y. Gene Palmer, the U.S. prison guard charged in connection with the escape of two killers, admitted providing them with tools, paint, frozen hamburger meat and access to a catwalk electrical box, but claims he never knew they planned to bust out, authorities say. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)
A member of Clinton Count Sheriff's department stand guard outside the Plattsburgh courthouse, Thursday, June 25, 2015, in Plattsburgh, N.Y. Gene Palmer, the U.S. prison guard charged in connection with the escape of two killers, admitted providing them with tools, paint, frozen hamburger meat and access to a catwalk electrical box, but claims he never knew they planned to bust out, authorities say. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

By Associated Press 2 min read

DANNEMORA, N.Y. (AP) – The latest on the hunt for two inmates who escaped from a maximum-security prison (all times local):

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9:45 a.m.

Police are again shifting the focus of their search for two convicted murderers who escaped from a maximum-security prison in northern New York three weeks ago.

Hundreds of law enforcement officers have spent most of the past week concentrating on a heavily wooded area 20 miles west of Clinton Correctional Facility, where David Sweat and Richard Matt broke out June 6. Authorities say DNA evidence confirmed the fugitives had been inside a hunting camp near the hamlet of Mountain View.