So it looks as though the Sheriff may have been correct in that Sweat (mostly) & Matt would have needed many hacksaw blades to get the job done. The DA had been selling that the only blades that had come in to the cons were via frozen burger meat unknowingly by Palmer.
Now we learn that other/more hacksaw blades were handed to the cons in between cardboard that Tillie, What?, ordered Palmer or other COs to give to Matt/Sweat for their paintings?
What...were they taped in between heavy pieces of cardboard? Palmer noticed nothing heavy about the cardboard?
Are these cardboard pieces behind the paintings that were in the manilla envelopes labelled NAACP that were found buried underneath the pile of leaves where Palmer ditched some of them while an investigation had begun? Would the cardboard backed paintings even fit in the manilla envelopes, or would they have been too thick?
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But that was not the only way hacksaw blades ended up in the hands of Matt and Sweat, whose greatest challenge was cutting the holes through their cell walls. They wore out the blades, and more were needed.
An artistic maneuver
The problem was solved by slipping fresh blades into sheets of cardboard from boxes Mitchell took apart and had sent to Matt’s cell. Corrections officers thought they were delivering cardboard for him to use as the backing of paintings and sketches he created and sometimes gave away. Corrections Officer Gene Palmer stands accused of tampering with evidence for allegedly destroying paintings he received from Matt.
To hide the holes in the cell walls, which were close to the floor, sheets of the cardboard were painted gray and placed in front of the holes.
http://www.buffalonews.com/city-reg...ard-matt-david-sweat-for-her-husband-20150706
It's bordering on the ridiculous now to be believable IMO