A prison worker who helped two convicted murderers escape from a maximum security prison in New York was sentenced to seven years behind bars for providing the inmates with tools used in their daring break-out.

A sobbing former prison worker who helped two murderers escape from a maximum-security facility said she regretted her “horrible mistake” as she was sentenced today to up to seven years behind bars as part of a plea deal.

A northern New York prison worker has admitted to smuggling hacksaw blades in frozen hamburger meat to two killers who later broke out and spent more than two weeks on the run.

A female prison worker being questioned by police, who are hunting two escapees from an upstate New York prison, thought she had a romantic relationship with one of them and had planned to drive the getaway car, NBC News reported.