Dannemora Prison Break - Charles Gardner
Things Police See: Firsthand Accounts
Steven D Gould
4.9 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 25 May 2020
⏱️ 95 minutes
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Summary
In this episode Steve and Ken interview retired Lieutenant Charles Garnder of the New York State Department of Corrections. Charles talks about his career as a corrections officer and gives a detailed account of the now infamous Dannemora prison break.
Charles A. Gardner spent twenty-five years in the corrections profession in Northern New York, and began his training at Clinton Correctional Facility – also known as Dannemora. He trained other corrections officers and watching the slow transformation of the prison system. His acclaimed book DANNEMORA: Two Escaped Killers, Three Weeks of Terror, and the Largest Manhunt Ever in Upstate New York (PB / March 2020) is a study of the now-infamous prison break (recently dramatically realized in the series Dannemora) which he illustrates in his hit book.
Link to his book
https://www.amazon.com/Dannemora-Escaped-Killers-Largest-Manhunt/dp/0806539240
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| 0:00.0 | This is Things Police See. |
| 0:03.7 | First Hand Accounts. |
| 0:05.0 | With your host Steve Gold. |
| 0:08.0 | Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the podcast. |
| 0:12.0 | With me as always Ken Roy Ball can how I yeah I like |
| 0:18.0 | the way you pronounced my name because it's proper you know I'm I'm still |
| 0:22.2 | upset at myself for not pronouncing it correctly for so long. |
| 0:25.0 | Well, at least you didn't call me rubble. I had used to have somebody call me rubble. Like Barney rubble from the Flintstones? |
| 0:32.0 | Bonnie rubble. Rubska. like Barney Rubble from the Flintstones? Bonnie Rubble. |
| 0:33.3 | Rub school. |
| 0:34.3 | Oh, you know, but I, yeah, it's okay. |
| 0:36.9 | I get the name somehow throws people off. |
| 0:39.7 | I don't know. |
| 0:40.8 | It's a big name. |
| 0:41.7 | It's not like an unknown name name that name is like there's a |
| 0:44.6 | Roybal building in downtown Los Angeles it's it is Los Angeles royalty it's your |
| 0:50.1 | building right I own it I I collect rent. It is cans. Yeah, well sir, today we have on |
| 1:00.2 | on Charles Gardner. He was 25 years in the correction system in in upstate New York and he |
| 1:08.4 | retired a judge and the really cool thing is he wrote a book about Danamora that famous now famous |
| 1:16.4 | infamous prison break that happened in 2015. |
| 1:19.4 | Yeah. They did a you know showtime series on it and I hear his book is really good. It's getting great reviews and it's called |
| 1:27.9 | Dana Mora, two escape killers, three weeks of terror and the largest manhunt ever in upstate New York so I want to try to |
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