The United States has long led the world in the number of children sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. Pennsylvania has put more juveniles behind bars for life than anywhere ...
Joe Ligon was just 15 when he joined a pack of drunk teenagers on a robbery and assault spree that left two people dead and six others stabbed. Illiterate and poor, Ligon pled guilty to two counts of ...
If you’ve never heard of Joe Ligon, it may be because he has spent most of his life behind bars. I imagine that if there is one thing that might help give Ligon the sense that his life was not ...
Leaving the State Correctional Institution Phoenix in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania on Thursday morning, his white hair peeking out below a prison-issue hat, Joe Ligon was accompanied by a dozen ...
Joe Ligon was finally released from prison after serving 68 years. Ligon, now 82, is the country’s oldest juvenile lifer in the United States. “We waste people’s lives by over-incarcerating and we ...
The nation’s oldest juvenile lifer walked out of prison Thursday morning after spending 68 years behind bars. Joe Ligon, 82, was released from prison at 7:45 a.m. Thursday, nearly seven decades after ...
Column: Joe Ligon, America’s longest-serving juvenile lifer, has a message for young Black offenders
I wish that every troubled young African American boy could meet Joe Ligon. I hope they stumble upon the picture of the white-haired man taken shortly after his release from a state prison in ...
Joe Ligon, believed to be the oldest and longest-serving juvenile lifer in the United States, has been released from a Pennsylvania prison after spending nearly seven decades behind bars. Ligon was ...
When Joe Ligon was sent to prison, President Dwight D. Eisenhower was just starting his first term in office, racial segregation was still legal, and the average gas price was $0.29 a gallon. It was ...
The United States has long led the world in the number of children sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. Pennsylvania has put more juveniles behind bars for life than anywhere ...
Joe Ligon, the nation’s oldest and longest-serving juvenile offender, has been released from prison after serving 68 years of a life sentence, The Philadelphia Inquirer reported. Ligon pleaded guilty ...
When a 15-year-old Joe Ligon last saw daylight as a free man, Dwight Eisenhower had just wrapped up his first month as president. Ligon, now 83 years old, walked out of Pennsylvania's State ...
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