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NY : Two Decades in Solitary

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

U.S. torture machine. September 23, 2008 Two Decades in Solitary By JOHN ELIGON New YOrk Times He is one of New York?s most isolated prisoners, spending 23 hours a day for the past two decades in a 9-by-6-foot cell. The only trimmings are a cot and a sink-toilet combination. His visitors ? few as they are ? must wedge into a nook outside his cell and speak to him through a 1-by-3-foot window of foggy plexiglass and iron bars. In this static existence, Willie Bosket, 45, seems to have gone from defiant menace to subdued and empty inmate. It was 30 years ago this month that a state law took effect allowing juveniles to be tried as adults, largely in response to Mr. Bosket?s slaying of two people on a New York subway when he was 15. He served only five years in jail for that crime because he was a juvenile, sparking public outrage...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on September 23, 2008 (boomark / email).