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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 court...

After 68 years behind bars, the nation's longest-serving juvenile lifer embraces freedom Karen Heller, The Washington Post Feb. 19, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail 12 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 3of12 4of12A giddy Joe Ligon shadowboxes i...

oxygen Insider Exclusive! Sign Up for Free to View 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 he began his sentence in December 1953 at the age of 15, Maria A. Bivens, press secretary for the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections confirmed to Oxygen.com. In Ligon’s first hours of freedom as he traveled to the public defender’s City Center office, he was struck by the size of the massive buildings that had been erected in the ye...

Joe Micallef Stafrace, 1933-2021 Joe Micallef Stafrace had a distinguished career but, above all, he was a decent and well-read man. He was loyal to the Labour Party but never afraid to criticise it or its leadership when he deemed necessary. Is-Sebħ, which he edited, became a daily in 1956. It was an anti-colonial mouthpiece at a time when Dom Mintoff’s party was seeking integration with Britain. One of its famous front-page editorials in February 1956, when Major-General Sir Robert Laycock was governor, was titled “Pay up or go home”. Although Micallef Stafrace was a victim of the Ch...

December 14, 2020 Fewer families benefit from Toys for Tots this year Written by Geoffrey Plant on December 14, 2020 (Press Staff Photo by Geoffrey Plant) From left, Olga Sarli, Joe Nerling, Michael Lopez and Gina Maestas help deliver a sack of toys to a family during the drive-thru Toys for Tots distribution at the Santa Clara Armory on Saturday. The “contactless” event was held in accordance with COVID-19 pandemic restrictions under the state’s public health orders. A somewhat diminished Toys for Tots distrib...