Editor’s note: The new limited event series on SHOWTIME, “Escape at Dannemora,” is based on the stranger-than-fiction account of a prison break in upstate New York in the summer of 2015 that spawned a massive manhunt for two convicted murderers. The series, which stars Benicio Del Toro, Patricia Arquette, and Paul Dano and is directed by Ben Stiller, premieres on November 18th at 10pm ET/PT. “Escape at Dannemora” recounts a story that was covered extensively by the Post at the time. The following is the second excerpt in a series of three articles from 2015, republished in cooperation with SHOWTIME.

Shaw-skank: I got in over my head

By Lia Eustachewich

Published: September 11, 2015

The “Shaw-skank” prison supervisor who helped two killers escape from an upstate facility in June blamed her role on “depression,” saying she “got in over my head.”

Joyce Mitchell, a former prison seamstress, said convicted murderer Richard Matt had “complete control” over her.

“He was good at that,” she told ‘Today’s Matt Lauer in her first TV interview.

“And I just got in over my head. And I couldn’t get out. And I couldn’t tell anybody. I couldn’t tell my husband. Couldn’t tell my family. I couldn’t tell my co-workers,” she added.

Mitchell, 51, said her battle with depression didn’t help.

“A lot of people go through [depression],” she shrugged.

The married mom pleaded guilty in July to helping Matt and his accomplice, David Sweat, escape from Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora.

She had a sexual relationship with both inmates, according a former inmate and documents.

Mitchell is expected to receive 2 and 1/3 to seven years in prison when she is sentenced later this month.

She admitted she smuggled tools into the prison to help the convicted murderers break out.

Matt and Sweat spent about three weeks on the lam in the woods around the upstate prison before a federal agent fatally shot Matt, who was armed with a stolen shotgun.