PART VI The Hague & The Plague ←Click here to go back to Part V: Diamonds & Guns Back in lockup, Thomas DeVoll said the guards in Plymouth brought him newspaper clippings about the wars in West Africa. “They would say, ‘Look—Charley’ and give me a Time magazine or a Boston Herald,” he told the New […]
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 following year. “Starting on 6 […]
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 embodying an all-American action hero, […]
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 indictment filed by the Liberian […]
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 Sheriff’s public relations spokesman recalled. […]