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Speaking at the Gutman Center, Butterfield told the story of Willie Bosket, the murderer who allegedly committed 2,000 crimes as a youth and is now in prison for life...
Butterfield linked Bosket's behavior to the fact that Bosket's father was himself convicted for murder and was sent to the same reform school as Willie at the same...
Butterfield said that Bosket wanted to be like his father, as a youth telling social workers and teachers that he would be a murderer like his father when he grew...
...Bosket has now filed a suit against his surrogate mother, charging cruel and unusual punishment at Woodbourne. He is also angry because the authorities have ignored an eight-page handwritten letter in which Bosket volunteered himself for study as a way to help prevent future Boskets. "It's all just theater to Willie, and we try not to give him a stage," says Thomas Coughlin III, New York's commissioner of correctional services...
...Bosket still finds ways to attract attention. While en route to court last month, he kicked a guard who was removing a leg manacle and then shouted to photographers, "Did you get that picture? Did you get that on film?" That act was reminiscent of the time last year when Bosket plunged a makeshift 11- in. knife into the chest of a guard, in full view of a newspaper reporter Bosket had enlisted to write his life story. The guard was critically injured but recovered. "Sensationalism sells newspapers," the baby-faced butcher blithely explains, "and the system responds to violence...