As a boy of 15 in 1978, he murdered several people on New York’s subway. Even before the murders, he was a legend with a lengthy criminal record. By Bosket’s admission, he committed more than 2,000 crimes. Two-hundred of those were armed robberies.
Bosket pleaded guilty to murdering a transit employee and was sentenced to 5 years in a youth facility as he was just 15. The light sentence would bring historic changes, and New York would become to the first state to change juvenile laws. Today, the law which allows persons as young as 13 to be tried as an adult is called the Willie Bosket law.
When Bosket was released, he returned to crime and bounced between jail cells and the street until eventually getting a life sentence in 1989.
When he was captured and put in prison, Bosket attacked guards and threw feces on them. In one case he made a shank with a piece of metal torn from the bottom of the typewriter prison authorities gave him to type his legal cases. Grinding down one end into an ice pick form, he stabbed a guard — almost killing him.
Bosket now occupies the most solitary confinement of any inmate in the entire nation. New York prisons built a special cell, just for him.
Bosket is in a kind of Plexiglas cage. The iron bars to his cell are covered so he can’t throw anything out, and he’s not allowed to have books, newspapers or magazines. Radio and TV are denied him, and he is under CCTV observation 24/7. The keepers are not permitted to speak with him.
The light fixtures were removed from his cell because he ate the bulbs just to show how fierce and violent he was.
Bosket did get some time off for good behavior and allowed to room with Jeff Epstein for a weekend leave.
Next week, how about a visit from two armed guards and a priest--who will ask him if he has anything to confess (while wearing shackles). From there directly to Sparky or a short rope.
A win-win. We don't have to worry about him and maybe he eventually makes Heaven. (He might wait in line for a while, but it won't be on us.)
Sounds like demon possession
When he departs this vale of tears, he will make an interesting case study for a doctoral student in theology researching the pathology of demonic possession or obsession.