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  1. Willie Bosket. William James Bosket Jr. (born December 9, 1962) is an American convicted murderer, whose numerous crimes committed while he was still a minor led to a change in New York state law, so that juveniles as young as 13 could be tried as an adult for murder and would face the same penalties. [2]

  2. Sep 18, 1988 · Nervous Prison System Keeps a Close Watch on Its Most Feared Inmate. By DAVID BAUDER. Sept. 18, 1988 12 AM PT. Associated Press. WOODBOURNE, N.Y. —. Willie Bosket’s meals are slipped into his ...

  3. Dec 29, 2014 · Willie Bosket at the Ulster County Courthouse in Kingston, New York in April 1989. Bosket was sentenced to 25 years to life for stabbing a prison guard in April 1988. Jim McKnight/Associated Press. Before Carey's in-flight change of heart, things seemed to be going in a much different direction.

  4. Mar 22, 1989 · He was first put in a reform school at age 9 at his mother's request. ... Bosket came back into the prison system in 1984 with a sentence of 3 1/2 to 7 years for mugging a half-blind 72-year-old ...

  5. May 29, 1989 · After his release from prison in 1983, Bosket Sr. found work as a university teaching assistant. His rehabilitation was short-lived. In 1985 he was arrested for molesting a six-year-old child.

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  6. Mr. Bosket was sentenced to 25 years to life for stabbing a guard in the visitors’ room in 1988, along with other offenses, leading prison authorities to make him virtually the most restricted inmate in the state. Now Mr. Bosket, who has gone 14 years without a disciplinary violation, does mainly three things: read, sleep and think.

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  8. Butch Bosket grew up to kill two men in a Milwaukee pawnshop, then became the first U.S. prison inmate to earn a Ph.D while incarcerated. He was released, re-arrested and killed by police during an escape attempt. At 9, Butch's son, Willie, was sent to the same reform school that once housed his father. Also like his father, he committed two ...

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