PLATTSBURGH, N.Y. — Authorities said a woman who provided hacksaw blades, chisels and other tools to two convicted murderers who escaped from a maximum-security prison discussed having them kill her husband.

Clinton County District Attorney Andrew Wylie at a news conference Wednesday that Joyce Mitchell had talked to inmates Richard Matt and David Sweat about killing her husband, Lyle, who also works at the Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora, near the Canadian border.

Sweat and Matt escaped from 170-year-old prison in New York on June 6 and have yet to be apprehended. Joyce Mitchell, a prison tailoring shop instructor who befriended the inmates, was arrested June 12.

Lyle Mitchell voluntarily gave a statement to authorities Wednesday.

His lawyer, Peter Dumas, said Lyle Mitchell will not be charged in connection with the escape, the newspaper reported. Investigators have no information that Lyle Mitchell knew about the escape plan or assisted in it, Wylie said.