BAKKACIMA BLOG

  One of the men who escaped from the Imo state Correctional Centre on Monday was set ablaze in his community on Wednesday. Angry residents of Umuawom village in Ikeduru Local Government Area caught him while allegedly threatening to kill a family member. The identity of the inmate could not be ascertained as of press time, but the information gotten says that he hailed from the nearby Ogwa community in Mbaitoli but grew up in Umuawom, his maternal home. He was said to have been involved in the kidnap of an Umuawom indigene. He was remanded for over a year. On escaping, he was said to have

  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.