In the first of a two-part jailhouse interview aired Monday morning on NBC's "Today" show, Joyce Mitchell told host Matt Lauer she cooperated with demands for help from Richard Matt and David Sweat because Matt had threatened members of her family.
"People need to know that I was only trying to save my family," said Mitchell, 51, who worked in the tailor shop at Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora, near the Canadian border in northern New York.
