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The case led to changes in state law to allow juveniles to be tried as adults for serious crimes, but these could not be applied retroactively to Price. Rhode Island residents formed the group
Citizens Opposed to the Release of Craig Price to lobby for his continued imprisonment, due to the brutality
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between the ages of 13 and 15. He was arrested in 1989 for four murders committed in his neighborhood: a woman and her two daughters that year, and the murder of another woman two years earlier. He had an existing criminal record for petty theft.
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of his crimes and the opinion of state psychologists that he was a poor candidate for rehabilitation. However Price was not released due to a series of crimes he committed behind bars while he was held in the Rhode Island
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for fights while in prison. He was sentenced to an additional 10–25 years, depending on his cooperation with treatment. Craig Price is the youngest serial killer in U.S. history.
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