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| Prison release rarely an option for dying state inmates |
| By observer-reporter.com- Jeffrey Benzing |
| Published: 07/14/2015 |
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Peggy Garrity kisses her brother Leon Jesse James, known to the family as Jesse, after his release from Graterford prison. He died from pancreatic cancer in July 2014. Leon Jesse James was supposed to die in prison. As a convicted murderer, Pennsylvania gave him no possibility of parole, meaning he’d spend nearly his entire adult life incarcerated for a 1971 fatal shooting in Philadelphia. Barely 18 at the time, he was angry and immature. Over four decades, his family watched him grow up and then grow old in prisons across Pennsylvania. The anger faded, but its consequences remained, leaving little hope that he’d ever return home. Strangely, that changed when he could no longer walk. Read More. |
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