David Sweat was the only one of two escaped inmates to survive in Escape at Dannemorabut what happened to the real person after he was captured and brought back to prison? The Showtime miniseries was initially released back in 2018, though its arrival on Netflix has thrust this story back into the limelight. Escape at Dannemora is based on the real-life prison escape of 2015, in which two inmates, Richard Matt and Matthew Sweat, seduced a married prison employee to gain her help in the first US prison break in decades.
