David Sweat, 35, had admitted two counts of escape and a single count of promoting prison contraband in the 6 June 2015 breakout from Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora.
Appearing in court on Wednesday with a shaven head and spectacles, the softly spoken Sweat apologised to the community for the inconvenience the jailbreak caused.
He was shot and captured three weeks after the escape about two miles from the border with Canada.
Two days earlier, a federal agent shot and killed the inmate who escaped with him, Richard Matt, 49.
Sweat was already serving a sentence of life in prison without possibility of parole for killing a police officer after a robbery.
He and Matt used hacksaw blades smuggled in frozen hamburger meat to break through their cell walls.
They cut their way into a steam pipe to make their way through a manhole on to the streets of the sleepy upstate New York town.
Two Clinton Correctional employees were charged in connection with the escape.
The brazen jailbreak was compared to the 1994 hit film The Shawshank Redemption.
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