Cop killer on hunger strike Escape-artist lifer unhappy with Attica
If he gets too skinny, he can just slip through the bars.
The convicted cop killer who famously escaped from an upstate prison in 2015 hates his new digs at Attica so much so that he’s gone on a hunger strike, sources told The Post.
David Sweat, 37, was transferred to the infamous upstate maximum-security facility on Nov. 17 from a lockup in the Finger Lakes region — then stopped eating six days later, according to a petition prison officials planned to file Friday.
Attica officials are worried the already slim inmate could die if his hunger strike continues and are seeking a judicial order allowing him to be fed through a tube.
“Mr. Sweat has refused all solid food,” the petition says. “Mr. Sweat is drinking fluids, but he is not drinking a sufficient amount of fluids to maintain his overall health.”
The defiant cop killer has said he’s “not happy” at Attica and wants to be transferred back to the prison he came from, Five Points Correctional Facility in Romulus, according to the documents.
Sweat — who shed seven pounds between Nov. 29 and Dec. 5 — even threatened to use his “notoriety” to force the state Department of Corrections to move him, the petition says.
“The prolonged refusal of fluids and nourishment by Mr. Sweat risks imminent serious medical consequences including permanent organ damage and death,” the papers read.
Sweat is serving a life term for murdering a Broome County sheriff ’s deputy in 2002.
In June 2015, he busted out of Clinton Correction Facility with fellow convicted murderer Richard Matt, setting off a massive, three-week manhunt.
They had help escaping from a worker at the prison, Joyce Mitchell, whom sources said had sexual relations with both men.
Matt was shot and killed by law enforcement, and Sweat was found three days later. He pleaded guilty to first-degree escape and promoting prison contraband.
On Nov. 17, he was transferred to Attica as part of a “routine process,” officials have said.
“There are approximately 5,000 inmate transfers from one prison to another every month,” Thomas Mailey, a spokesman for the Department of Corrections, said in November.