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Jul 7, 2021 · Billy Blake. Photo: YNN. In 1987, appearing in a courtroom on drug charges, Blake shot two sheriff’s deputies during a bungled escape attempt, killing one and critically wounding another. He was convicted of murder and sentenced to 77 ½ years to life in prison. He was 23 years old.
Apr 1, 2021 · Billy Blake, a convicted murderer, has been housed in a small cell on his own for 34 years in prisons in upstate New York. He said inmates regularly throw excrement, bang on their doors or...
Mar 23, 2013 · First, some background: In 1987, while in county court on a drug charge, Blake, then 23, grabbed a gun from a sheriff’s deputy and, in a failed escape attempt, murdered one deputy and wounded another. He is now 49 years old, and is serving a sentence of 77 years to life.
Mar 29, 2021 · Prison Writer William Blake, Who Has Lived in Isolation Cells in New York State Since 1987, Awaits His Promised Release from Solitary
Jun 3, 2019 · William “Billy” Blake has spent what may be the longest amount of time in continuous isolation in New York. Despite having no violent infractions in more than 15 years, Blake is now in his 32nd year of solitary confinement.
Apr 2, 2021 · Blake is serving a sentence of seventy-seven years to life in New York’s Mid-State Correctional Facility for shooting two sheriff’s deputies — killing one — in a botched attempt to escape a county courthouse, where he was being held on drug charges. That was 1987, when Blake was twenty-three.
In society it is known as solitary confinement. It is 23-hour a day lockdown in a cell smaller than some closets I’ve seen, with one hour allotted to “recreation” consisting of placement in a...
Oct 14, 2016 · Billy Blake, far left, grins while chained to two other inmates shortly after he fatally shot one Onondaga County Sheriff's deputy and injured another on Feb. 10, 1987 outside of DeWitt...
Dec 12, 2011 · Syracuse, NY - Twenty-four years after gunning down Onondaga County Sheriff’s Deputy David Clark in an escape attempt, notorious killer William R. “Billy” Blake offered an apology in a...
Feb 9, 2017 · It has been 30 years since the night of one of Central New York's most notorious crimes and the sight of Billy Blake's grin still gives chills. Billy Blake is brought into the Courthouse under...
