A Boston company buying these tax liens has more than doubled its rate of foreclosures against Massachusetts property owners over the last four years, according to Land Court records.

Tax Lien Law Haunts Massachusetts Property Owners

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Part 4: Wrongfully jailed for 38 years, Fred Clay rebuilds his life in Lowell

After a stream of revelations of secret harassment and discrimination settlements, the town of Brookline has decided it will annually release information about settlements it has reached with plaintiffs and how much the town has paid out.

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Gilberto Toro — 22 years old and severely disabled — was repeatedly whipped by a belt-wielding caretaker two years ago in a group home run by the Canton-based Judge Rotenberg Educational Center, prosecutors say.

The worker, Mohamed Tarawally, was supposed to keep Toro safe overnight at his group home run by the school. But Assistant District Attorney Philip Burr says instead Tarawally assaulted his disabled ward — actions that were caught on video.

Tarawally pleaded not guilty to criminal charges. But the alleged assaults are not the only mistreatment reported at the Canton-based institution best known for being the only school in the United States to use electric shocks to control its special needs students.

Part 1: Abuse claims persist for special needs school

Part 2: Abuse claims persist for special needs school

The first prisoner to be freed under Massachusetts’ new medical parole law is home in Centerville after the state Department of Correction approved his appeal for early release.

Alexander Phillips, a 31-year-old inmate diagnosed with terminal cancer, was released Thursday from the Massachusetts Correctional Institution at Norfolk.

First Massachusetts 'compassionate release' prisoner goes home

Some cities in Massachusetts are cashing in on homeowners who have failed to pay tax bills by running auctions that pull in thousands of dollars more than they’re actually owed in taxes.

Some cities are cashing in on homeowners’ tax debts

Fred Clay, who was wrongfully convicted of murder and spent almost 38 years in Massachusetts’ prisons, will receive a $1 million settlement from the state, the highest amount allowed under a new state law.

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An estimated 43 evictions a day happen around Massachusetts, in one of the nation’s priciest rental markets. Tenants must often represent themselves in court, as they seek to stave off homelessness.

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The number of inmate suicides in Massachusetts’ county jails dropped to three last year — the lowest tally since 2011 and a sharp decrease from 10 suicides the year before in jails run by county sheriffs, according to data compiled by the New England Center for Investigative Reporting.

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Connecticut has seen a reduction in hit-and-run crashes over the past three years, which some safety experts attribute to the state’s four-year-old policy of allowing undocumented immigrants to obtain driver’s licenses.

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