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America's Oldest Juvenile Lifer Released After 68years In Prison

  Joe Ligon has been released from a Pennsylvania prison after spending almost 70years in jail. He is  believed to be the oldest and longest-serving juvenile lifer in the United States. Ligon was incarcerated in February 1953 at the age of 15, given a mandatory life sentence after pleading guilty to charges stemming from a robbery and stabbing spree in Philadelphia with four other teenage boys. The crime left six people wounded and two people dead ( Charles Pitts and Jackson Hamm,  identified by the Philadelphia Inquirer). "I got caught up, in terms of being in the streets," Ligon told reporters after his release last week.