Escape procedures were implemented by the Department, which included notifying the Division of State Police and the Ulster County Sheriff s Department of the escape. The Department also deployed four armed roving patrols that retraced the bus route. There are four seats in the front of the bus the driver s, two behind the driver s seat facing straight ahead and one just back of the bus door which faces the center of the bus. It was eight feet from the Officers seats to the one occupied by Seeley. The inmates are cuffed with their arms in front of them, to a chain that runs around their waists secured by a padlock in the back.
Leg shackles secure inmates in pairs.
For safety reasons, such as in the case of an accident or a fire, the shackles are not secured to the floor. That allows inmates, in pairs, to exit the vehicle in an emergency.