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Former teacher sentenced federal prison for sex with student

A former Arkansas teacher has been sentenced to more than 10 years in federal prison for taking students out of state to engage in illegal sex acts. On Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Lee P. Rudofsky sentenced Heather Hare to 13 years in federal prison for transporting a minor across state lines for the purpose of […]

Democratic town reeling over migrant shelter opening in old prison

Residents of a New England town are outraged that they were not consulted about a plan to convert a former state prison into a taxpayer-funded immigrant shelter for hundreds of people. The state is using a former minimum-security dormitory-like facility in Norfolk, Massachusetts, to house immigrants and homeless people currently barricaded at Boston’s Logan International […]

Kurds Protest Across Turkey as Court Sentences Presidential Hopeful to 42 Years in Prison

Kurdish citizens staged protests across Turkey after a court sentenced Selahattin Demirtas, former co-chairman of the pro-Kurdish People’s Democratic Party (HDP) and two-time presidential candidate, to 42 years in prison. . To quell Kurdish anger, authorities in 20 states banned demonstrations, social gatherings and public events for four days. Demirtas, 51, has been in prison […]

Massachusetts to convert prison into shelter for illegal aliens

Massachusetts plans to turn shuttered prisons into emergency “safety net” locations for undocumented immigrants, Democratic Gov. Maura Healey’s office confirmed. WCVB Saturday. The Bay State Correctional Center in Norfolk was decommissioned in 2015, but will soon serve as temporary housing for about 140 local homeless and undocumented immigrant families living in Massachusetts, the only state […]