David Sweat busted out of prison last year and spent three weeks on the run before being shot and recaptured. On Wednesday, a judge also ordered him serve more time on top of his life sentence.
David Sweat appears in court on Nov. 13, 2015.
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One of the inmates who spent three weeks on the lam after busting out of a maximum security prison in New York last year was ordered Wednesday to pay nearly $80,000 in restitution and serve extra time on top of his life sentence.
A judge slapped David Sweat, 35, with the new sentence at a court in Plattsburgh, New York, the Associated Press reported. The sentence requires Sweat to pay $79,841 in restitution, as well as serve up to seven additional years in prison.
Sweat pleaded guilty in November to three charges related to the brazen escape.
Sweat — who had been serving a life sentence for murdering a sheriff's deputy in 2002 — apologized during Wednesday's hearing for frightening people in the community after he broke out of prison.
"That was never my intent, and I deeply apologize for that," he said, according to the AP.
Sweat, left, and Matt, right, appear in booking photos.
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Sweat escaped from the Clinton Correctional Facility along with fellow inmate Richard Matt on June 6. The two men managed to saw their way out of the facility using tools smuggled in by civilian prison employee Joyce Mitchell.
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