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After 68 years behind bars, the longest-serving juvenile lifer in the US embraces freedom

Joe Ligon is pictured in 1963, 10 years into his prison sentence.
The son of Alabama sharecroppers, Ligon entered prison when Dwight Eisenhower was president. During the 68 years that he spent incarcerated in a half dozen penal institutions, the world outside moved on.
At the one-day trial in 1953, Ligon and his co-defendants were referred to as “coloured.” At school, his special education classes were designated for the “orthogenically backward.” He was incarcerated in a facility named the Pennsylvania Institution for Defective Delinquents in the US, the inmates classified by courts “as mentally defective with criminal tendencies.”
Ligon, 83, has never had his own place, operated a cellphone, paid a bill, cast a ballot, earned the minimum wage, lived with a partner, fathered children. ....

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After 68 years behind bars, the nation's longest-serving juvenile lifer embraces freedom

After 68 years behind bars, the nation s longest-serving juvenile lifer embraces freedom
Karen Heller, The Washington Post
Feb. 19, 2021
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1of12Juvenile offender Joe Ligon has been released after 68 years behind bars in Pennsylvania.Washington Post photo by Michael S. WilliamsonShow MoreShow Less
2of12Joe Ligon, right, and his attorney, Bradley Bridge, stop for coronavirus-related temperature checks in the lobby of Bridge s Philadelphia office building.Washington Post photo by Michael S. WilliamsonShow MoreShow Less
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4of12A giddy Joe Ligon shadowboxes in the parking garage to burn off nervous energy as lawyer Bradley Bridge grabs his suitcase from a trunk filled with his client s legal papers.Washington Post photo by Michael S. WilliamsonShow MoreShow Less ....

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Joe Ligon was locked up at age 15. Almost seven decades later, he's reentering an unfamiliar world.

Joe Ligon was locked up at age 15. Almost seven decades later, he's reentering an unfamiliar world.
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After 68 years behind bars, the nation's longest-serving juvenile lifer embraces freedom

After 68 years behind bars, the nation's longest-serving juvenile lifer embraces freedom
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