The Bay State Correctional Center will help house families on the waitlist for state shelter. It was decommissioned in 2015, ...
The former Massachusetts prison can accommodate up to 140 families, or up to 450 people, half of whom will be newly arrived ...
As the state struggles to find enough space — and money — to house thousands of newly arrived migrants, Governor Maura Healey ...
There was a lot of anger Wednesday night over a plan to turn an old Massachusetts prison into a new emergency shelter.
The former minimum-security prison was decommissioned nearly a decade ago, but state officials say the facility remains in ...
Gov. Maura Healey is turning to a former prison as a temporary safety net shelter for families experiencing homelessness. The ...
State officials recently announced plans to use the former minimum-security prison to house families on the state’s shelter ...
Massachusetts officials said they plan to ship hundreds of migrants to a local prison – but only after it’s converted into a shelter to accommodate the influx of asylum seekers. With migrants flocking ...
A democratic town in Massachusetts town are furious that they have not been consulted on plans to convert a former prison ...
Gov. Maura Healey’s administration plans to turn a decommissioned prison in Norfolk into an overflow shelter for up to 140 ...
"Our schools are overcrowded as it is, we have a budget problem – this isn’t a humanitarian question, this is a mathematical ...
Residents of Norfolk said they are worried about adding homeless and migrant children to an already overcrowded school system ...