Homeland Security Unveils Freedom Trail Jail

BOSTON
–The Department of Homeland Security’s plan to hold detainees in cells
in a new office building along the historic Freedom Trail, in the neighborhood
that saw the first major fighting of the American Revolution, has residents
here preparing to wage their own battle.

The federal government has signed a 10-year, $1.2 million per year lease
with developers of a new building in downtown Charlestown, an area best
known as the site of the Bunker Hill Monument, the home port of the USS
Constitution, and starting point for Paul Revere’s historic ride.

Neighbors say they were promised by developers that the office building
would be filled with retail and professional office space – not holding
rooms for potentially dangerous federal detainees awaiting deportation.

from the
Herald Tribune