The United States has long led the world in the number of children sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. Pennsylvania has put more juveniles behind bars for life than anywhere ...

Ligon, a co-founder of the influential group the Mighty Clouds of Joy, died Sunday. He was part of a movement toward contemporary gospel, which... 'He Was Just That Anointed': Remembering Gospel Star ...

A man who spent 68 years in prison remarked on how different the world around him was once he became a free man again. 88-year-old Joe Ligon was a juvenile when back in 1953 he was part of a group of ...

In 1953, 15-year-old Joe Ligon and four other Pennsylvania teens went on an alcohol-fueled tear that resulted in the stabbing deaths of two people and injuries to six more. The teens were tried as a ...

Joe Ligon is a free man after almost 70 years in jail(Image: Juvenile-In-Justice) The world was very different in 1953 to the one we inhabit today. Owning a ...

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It should surprise absolutely no one that America’s oldest and longest-serving juvenile offender is a Black man. Joe Ligon was 15 years old when he received a life sentence in Philadelphia for his ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Singer Joe Ligon, the dynamic frontman of the Grammy-winning gospel group Mighty Clouds of Joy, has died. He was 80. His booking agent, Ricky DeRae, said Monday that Ligon died ...