The Franklin School is a historic building that was used for a homeless shelter that was shut down in 2008.

Last November, at the height of the Occupy Wall Street movement, a group of activists broke into the Franklin School downtown to protest the fact that it remains empty and unused even as homeless shelters around the city have closed down.

Yesterday, six of those activists were found guilty of unlawful entry and sentenced to five days in prison (albeit suspended) and three months of unsupervised probation.

In 2008, the Franklin School building, which had been used as a homeless shelter, was closed by Mayor Adrian Fenty. Homelessness grew worse in D.C. during the recent recession, and the activists argued that the building should be reopened and used as a shelter. (The solution isn’t so easy, though.)

Last month a group of Occupy D.C. protesters was found guilty for building a barn in McPherson Square during the height of the encampment there.