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Dec 29, 2014 · As for Willie Bosket, he is locked up for life at Woodbourne Correctional Facility, where he is kept in the most extreme isolation. The New York Times reported in 2008 that after repeatedly attacking guards and other inmates Bosket was consigned to a specially constructed Plexiglas cage and had gone "from defiant menace to subdued and empty ...
CHANG: But he wasn't locked up for life. He got the maximum sentence for a juvenile at the time - 5 1/2 years. Kaari Pitkin of member station WNYC reports on the life of Willie Bosket, who ...
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]
May 29, 1989 · Once he has been locked up, a homicidal maniac has limited opportunities. He can spend the rest of his life in prison, or he can be put to death by the state. But Willie Bosket Jr. is not your...
- Richard Behar
Yet as juvenile crime statistics worsened around the country, other states followed suite. The press, the public, and prosecutors in New York took to calling it the Willie Bosket law. He got the notoriety he wanted, but not quite in the way he had imagined when he bragged to everyone that he would become a killer just like his dad.
Sep 18, 1988 · Willie Bosket was 10 when first sent to a detention home. By the time he was 15 he had killed two men in New York City subway robberies, shooting one in the face after he put up his hands in ...
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Sep 23, 2008 · Willie Bosket has gone 14 years without a disciplinary violation, but he has been in solitary confinement in New York prisons for 20 years and is slated to remain there until 2046.
