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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 years since he was incarcerated.
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A 62-year-old woman being held at State Correctional Institution at Muncy last week became the first Pennsylvania inmate to die of COVID-19, state officials report.
The female inmate, whose name wasn t being released, had underlying medical conditions and was taken to the hospital on Jan. 20, according to Department of Corrections and SCI Muncy spokeswoman Maria A. Bivens.
The inmate had been at SCI Muncy since April 2013, and tested positive for COVID-19 while at the hospital, officials said.
She was serving a 10 to 40-year sentence for burglary, officials said. We are experiencing the same thing that our counties are experiencing, and we are following very strict procedures to mitigate the virus’ impact on our state prisons,” Corrections Secretary John Wetzel said.