Exclusive | Inside Joyce Mitchells bleak, reclusive life 10 years after she helped convicted killer lovers escape Dannemora

There’s been no redemption for the Shawskank. New photos show Joyce Mitchell living a bleak, reclusive life in upstate New York nearly 10 years to the day after she helped her alleged lovers — convicted killers Richard Matt and David Sweat — escape from Clinton maximum-security prison in Dannemora, NY.Neighbors in sleepy Dickinson told The Post they rarely see the disgraced 61-year-old or her head-scratchingly devoted husband, Lyle — whose names remain tainted across the North Country a decade after the jailbreak and 23-day manhunt captivated the nation and spawned a Hollywood miniseries.“She is not regarded well around here,” said Connie Paquin, the owner of Mo’s Bar and Grill in Malone, 18 miles north of the Mitchell’s rural, two-story home. “Nobody can really believe what she did,” said Paquin.“Everybody around here thinks she really should have got more time than she got.”Joyce Mitchell was a supervisor in the prison tailor shop when she began “flirtatious” relationships with both Matt and Sweat, who were meticulously hatching an escape not unlike the fictitious one in 1994’s “The Shawshank Redemption.”As the flings progressed, the dowdy seamstress gave Matt oral sex and passed along nude selfies for Sweat, she later confessed to authorities.

Eventually she began helping the cons with their planned breakout, even smuggling in a hacksaw blade and drill bit concealed in hamburger meat.All the while, her husband worked as an industrial training supervisor in the same lockup.After six months of planning and using the tools to cut through their steel cell walls and an 18-inch steam pipe in the facility’s underbelly, the duo made their escape on June 6, 2015. They emerged from a manhole cover about 500 feet outside the prison walls around 11:50 p.m. Joyce Mitchell was supposed to be waiting for her daring boytoys in a car at a nearby intersection at midnight, ready to ride off into the sunset toward Mexico. But she never show...