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Powerful far-right politician Joerg Haider has set up a holding facility in the remote mountains of southern Austria for asylum seekers suspected as criminals, saying they need to be isolated to protect the people in the area.
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In this photo provided by the Dickerson family in Shepherdsville, Ky., Deron Dickerson is shown a few months prior to his 2005 drowning death in a bathtub at the former Bluegrass Communities at Oakwood facility in Somerset, Ky.
