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And they have a message for the 54-year-old prison employee-turned-prisoner when she’s sprung in a few years: “You’re not welcome here.”

“I’d tell her: ‘You’re no good.’ … With any luck, she’ll pass away in prison and never have to come back,” said a longtime friend of Lyle Mitchell, Tillie’s cuckolded husband.

The pal, like many in this village of 4,616 people and its outskirts near the Canadian border, are angry at the “Shawskank” of the Clinton Correctonal Facility. They were embarrassed and disgusted when the married seamstress supervisor smuggled jailbreak tools to two convicted killers — her secret storeroom lovers David Sweat and Richard Matt — so they could escape the max lockup in 2015. Sweat was captured and Matt killed after a 23-day manhunt.

The hit Showtime series “Escape at Dannemora” has reopened the wound, with Hollywood painting locals as doddering simpletons and corrections officers as crooked and oblivious buffoons.

“It’s insulting — they have everyone look like a bunch of hillbillies,” said Lyle’s pal. Another local was recently asked by an outsider, “Is everybody in that town that dumb?”

The fallout at Clinton, New York state’s largest prison and the area’s biggest employer, also gnaws at the locals. Prison workers, even the 1,000 correction officers, must now enter the facility at the beginning of their shifts carrying belongings in transparent bags.

“They call them ‘Tillie bags,’” said Donna Rovito, owner of Serendipity Salon and Day Spa in nearby Malone, whose husband is a career CO. “As soon as that went down, the state bought in clear plastic bags for all employees.” (Rovito and her salon were featured in a scene in the show, in which Tillie, played by Patricia Arquette, treats herself to a manicure.)

“They can see everything — there’s no privacy,” a disgusted correction officer told The Post while holding up a clear bag with a sandwich inside it for display. “It makes people think everyone’s the bad apple. A CO’s life is in danger every day.”

But it is Lyle Mitchell, 52, Tillie’s husband of 17 years, who has the biggest cross to bear, townspeople and friends say.

According to official law enforcement accounts, Tillie confessed to having non-consensual oral sex with Matt and providing nude photos of herself for Sweat. The Hollywood version shows her having intercourse with both men.

“They have Lyle playing a total idiot on TV. Sh-t, they should have gotten Goofy to play his part if they’re gonna do that,” said the pal.

“People laugh at him. He’s got a lot of shame. I would sell my house and go. I would have gotten rid of her on day one,” said a softball-league friend. “I told him to his face: ‘If you love her, shut up about it – don’t tell the whole world. Go see her on the quiet.’”

The friend said Lyle — who’s depicted as an electrician on the show but was actually a prison tailor — no longer works at Clinton and collects disability. He still lives in the couple’s home in Dickinson Center, about an hour from Dannemora. And he is still devoted to Tillie, even taking in her ailing 77-year-old mother, Joyce Clookey.

Besotted Lyle even built his wife, who is eligible for parole in June 2019 after two denials in 2017, a backyard gazebo — something she said she wanted upon her release. “He’s waiting for her to come home,” said Bill, who lives down the road.

“I think he’s nuts for staying with his wife after she tried to kill him,” he added. “If my wife wanted me dead, I sure as hell wouldn’t take her back.”

Clinton County prosecutors said Tillie discussed killing Lyle with the inmates. Sweat told investigators it was actually Tillie who first floated the idea, an allegation she has denied. She was never formally charged with the murder plot. Her 2015 conviction was for promoting prison contraband (a hacksaw and a drill bit) and misdemeanor criminal facilitation.

Lyle is rarely seen around town, and only spends time at the volunteer fire department, friends said.

On Thursday morning, a sad-sack Lyle answered the door in blue jeans and T-shirt with dog at his side. He told a reporter he’s doing “good,” but added, “I’m not saying nothing to nobody.”

His ex-wife, with whom he has two grown children and who lives nearby, has been taking him in and feeding him, and will probably have him over for Christmas, said Lyle’s pal.

“I don’t care what does, but she made my buddy look like a moron,” he said. “I told him, ‘You’re not the first guy to marry a whore.’ He didn’t like that. People laugh at him. We’ve got a lot of town jokes and he’s one of them.”

The friend added that she was always trouble. “She had no friends — nobody liked her.” At a softball game years ago, his wife “gave me orders: ‘Never leave me alone with her again.’”

“He really loved her. He was so nice to her all the time and very loving,” said Mackenzie Bice, a hostess at King’s Wok restaurant in Malone, where Tillie was plotting to slip Lyle a sleeping pill in his drink the night of the escape. “She was just mean to him, so standoffish.”

Nowadays, Lyle returns to the scene of the almost-crime, eating there recently with some male friends at the $10.75 buffet.

Disgraced Corrections Officer Gene Palmer, who was depicted in the show as palling around with the escapees, especially Matt, served four months in jail for official misconduct. His life will never be the same.

Cadyville neighbor Sandy O’Neill, a staunch defender of Palmer, said he is a basket case, shunned by friends. “He cries a lot,” she said. He now does carpentry work in Boston to get by, she said.

She blames Tillie for the escape. “Everybody does the same thing: bring in things the inmates want – that’s the way it used to be, that’s the way it always was,” she said. “Tillie had sex and everything with those guys. She should have been hung. was the scapegoat.”

Lyle Mitchell faithfully visited his wife every other weekend for the more than four years she served time in Bedford Hills, and he remains devoted now.

DICKINSON CENTER, N.Y. — Video captured former jailhouse seamstress Joyce Mitchell — who provided tools to two killers used in their escape from Clinton Correctional Facility — for the first time since she left prison nearly three weeks ago

Joyce Mitchell was spotted with her long-suffering husband, Lyle Mitchell, leaving their home in New York’s North Country.

She was grim-faced as she departed the shingled home with her husband right behind her, refusing to answer questions.

Minutes earlier, her husband had left the house alone to open the garage door, apparently paving the way for his wife to quickly get into a white SUV.

The two then drove away.

On Feb. 6, Joyce Mitchell, now 55, received a conditional release from Bedford Hills Correctional Center in Westchester County.

She had served nearly 4 ½ years of her sentence, which was 2 ⅓ to 7 years for promoting prison contraband.

Under New York State law, a prisoner is entitled to conditional release for good behavior, after serving two-thirds of their sentence.

The seamstress, known as “Tillie,” was arrested in June 2015, not long after two, convicted murderers who once worked in her prison tailor shop managed a jaw-dropping escape from the maximum-security Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora, New York.

Richard Matt and David Sweat couldn’t manage getting over the massive, fortress-like, 30-foot walls that surround the prison complex.

Instead, they relied on hacksaw blades Mitchell had smuggled in hamburger meat — with help from an unwitting correction officer — to cut an escape route from the back of their adjacent prison cells.

Their escape has been compared to that of the 1994 movie “Shawshank Redemption.” In the film, an elaborate escape was planned through the tunnel and prison sewage pipe.

A state report found that convicted cop killer David Sweat had managed to leave his cell a total of 85 times in the months leading up to the escape on June 6, 2015.

Sweat, who survived a three-week-plus manhunt that left Richard Matt shot dead, said he was able to cut a clean hole in a steam pipe that enabled the two inmates to slither to freedom.

The two famously popped their way to freedom though a manhole, a block outside the prison walls on Bouck Street in Dannemora.

Joyce Mitchell said she was supposed to meet them near the manhole with a getaway vehicle but backed out at the last minute, fearing the men would kill her husband, a fellow prison worker.

She had a panic attack at a local Chinese restaurant in Malone and went to the hospital instead.

Richard Matt was shot dead on Day 21 of the search, which brought out more than 1,100 law enforcement officers and cost New York State more than $23 million dollars in police overtime.

Sweat was shot by New York State Police Sergeant Jay Cook two days later in Constable, New York, as he tried to run toward the Canadian border, which was less than two miles away. He survived.

Speaking to TODAY's Matt Lauer, Lyle Mitchell revealed the moment he said his wife admitted she gave fugitives Richard Matt and David Sweat tools to saw through their cells. However, Joyce Mitchell denied she had a sexual relationship with either of the them.

He said Matt even gave her pills that would knock him out so that she could flee with the pair. Authorities allege she later backed out of the plot when she had a change of heart.

“She said: ‘I love my husband, I am not hurtin' him’,” Lyle Mitchell recounted on Monday. “She said, "Then I knew I was over my head.”

He added: "When it came down to her hurtin' me, that's when she said something was wrong. She said she was in too deep, she didn't know how to get out of it."

Joyce Mitchell has been charged with bringing the tools into Clinton Correctional Facility, where she worked alongside Sweat and Matt in the tailor shop.

An intense manhunt was launched after the pair managed to escape through a tunnel on June 6.

Lyle Mitchell said he knew nothing about the alleged plot. He recalled how his wife of 14 years was repeatedly interviewed by police — raising his suspicions — until she finally told him of her initial alleged role.

At the police station, “an investigator comes out and says, ‘Mr Mitchell, your wife is more involved than what she's lettin' on’,” Lyle Mitchell said. “I asked her what was going on. She said, ‘I just — I did some things … and I got over my head.’ I didn't know what to say. I was just … disbelief, shock.”

According to her husband, Joyce Mitchell alleged that Matt had tried to kiss her "a couple times" but she insisted things never went further.

Lyle said he believed his wife’s assurances that she had shown “a little affection” for Matt but that nothing sexual had taken place with either of the murderers.

“She swore on her son's life that definitely, ‘Never have I ever had sex’ .”

The couple’s marriage had seemed “excellent” until the revelations, he added.

“We never fight," Lyle Mitchell said. "We're together, I'll bet you, 95 percent of the time. We work together, we never leave the house unless we're together."

Lyle Mitchell added that his wife has been fully co-operating with investigators.

“She’s told 'em every single thing that’s possible,” he said. “She said, ‘I'm tryin' to make this right. I know what I did was wrong. I need to make this right.'"