NATE HOMAN, Author at BINJ

AN INFAMOUS WEST AFRICAN WARLORD’S BAY STATE JAILBREAK

PART V Diamonds & Guns ←Click here to go back to Part IV: Firestone & Brimstone In the wake of another full-scale NPFL massacre in the streets of Monrovia in 1996, the scattered Liberian factions signed the Abuja Agreements ceasefire treaty. The ravaged republic then prepared itself for an election the

NATE HOMAN January 7, 2024

AN INFAMOUS WEST AFRICAN WARLORD’S BAY STATE JAILBREAK

PART IV Firestone & Brimstone ←Click here to go back to Part III: Beyond the Breakout A former Plymouth corrections supervisor recalled shooting the shit with the stranded ex-finance minister on a regular basis. “He was outgoing, charismatic, very sharp, the executive type, you know, not like a Rambo.” Instead of

NATE HOMAN January 7, 2024

AN INFAMOUS WEST AFRICAN WARLORD’S BAY STATE JAILBREAK

PART III Beyond the Breakout ←Click here to go back to Part II: Purgatory in Plymouth Charles Taylor’s internment in international limbo was a quarry-sized quandary for the commonwealth. He’d been taken into custody by federal authorities, but was not charged with breaking any American laws. Instead, he faced an international

NATE HOMAN January 7, 2024

AN INFAMOUS WEST AFRICAN WARLORD’S BAY STATE JAILBREAK

PART II Purgatory in Plymouth ←Click here to go back to Part I: The Education of Charles Taylor Built on a 200-acre farm southwest of downtown Plymouth in 1910, the old Plymouth County House of Correction “was easy to break out of compared to today’s updated facilities,” a former Plymouth County

NATE HOMAN January 7, 2024

AN INFAMOUS WEST AFRICAN WARLORD’S BAY STATE JAILBREAK

The only prisoner to make a clean getaway from the Plymouth County House of Correction is also the first world leader convicted of international war crimes since the Nazis. This is the untold story of Charles Taylor’s time in the Bay State, the crimes he committed, and the prison he

NATE HOMAN January 7, 2024

AN INFAMOUS WEST AFRICAN WARLORD’S BAY STATE JAILBREAK

PART I The Education of Charles Taylor ←Click here to go back to Introduction Charles McArthur Ghankay Taylor was born to poor parents in a rural town in Liberia, about 30 miles upriver from Monrovia, on Jan. 28, 1948. His father, Nielsen Philip Taylor, the great-grandson of immigrants from the

NATE HOMAN January 7, 2024

PANDEMIC FISH TALES FROM THE BAY STATE’S SINKING SEAFOOD INDUSTRY

“All these boats have supply, but nowhere to go.” “Our shellfish business died overnight.”

NATE HOMAN April 18, 2020

MEET THE CREW TURNING DORMS INTO SHELTERS DURING THE COVID-19 CRISIS

For days, he and his crew had been converting dorm rooms into shelters for those experiencing homelessness while the predicted peak of coronavirus pandemic looms. “I felt like I needed to do my part to help, and this was my chance.”

NATE HOMAN April 7, 2020

PHOTO GALLERY: MAGA MERCHANTS OF MANCHESTER CASH IN DURING TRUMP RALLY

“I used to work for NASA, had a sweet job making $29.90 an hour. Then Obama come in and said, ‘We don’t need no space program no more.’”

NATE HOMAN February 11, 2020

THE TRACK LEAST TRAVELED

Daybreak at a semihistoric MBTA station you have never heard of and will probably never use It’s an everyday struggle if you head inbound toward Boston from the least-used MBTA train station. There’s only one commuter rail that heads that way on weekdays, and it leaves at 6:58 in

NATE HOMAN December 12, 2018