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The Ash Street Jail and Regional Lock-Up, located in New Bedford, Massachusetts, is a jail for inmates awaiting trial from Bristol County, Massachusetts. The Ash Street Jail is one of the oldest operating jails in the United States. It is a medium to a maximum-security facility.
This is a list of County Correctional facilities in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. It does not include federal prisons or state prisons located in Massachusetts . Each of the following houses of correction and jails are under the jurisdiction of the Sheriff of that county.
Bristol County was created by the Plymouth Colony on June 2, 1685, [3] and named after its "shire town" (county seat), Bristol. [4] The Plymouth Colony, along with the Massachusetts Bay Colony, the Maine Colony and several other small settlements were rechartered in 1691, by King William III, to become The Province of Massachusetts Bay.
The Bristol County Sheriff's Office is being sued, he noted, stemming from the riot in 2020. The lawsuit was filed in behalf of 16 detainees at the former Immigration Detention Center building ...
Bristol County Sheriff candidate Paul Heroux attends forum hosted by South Coast groups.
A report from 2017 found that between 2012 and 2016, Bristol County jails accounted for a quarter of all jail suicides in Massachusetts, despite housing only 13% of inmates in the state. [25] In October 2022, Adam Howe, a 34-year-old man from Truro, killed himself in an Ash Street Jail cell while awaiting trial for the murder of his mother. [26]
A detention facility in Georgia where women claim they were subjected to unwanted medical procedures and a Massachusetts jail that has drawn complaints of inhumane conditions will no longer be ...
The current Bristol County Jail was constructed in 1828 to replace a previous jail erected on the same site in 1792. The new structure was a 36.5-foot-wide (11.1 m) by 46.4-foot-long (14.1 m) 2 + 1 ⁄ 2-story stone structure topped with a gable roof. [2]