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Hodgson was appointed sheriff of Bristol County by then-Governor William F. Weld on May 21, 1997. [6] He won election to a full six-year term in 1998 and moved to Fall River the next year. He garnered press for charging inmates for room and board, medical services and hair cuts while in jail and for getting rid of televisions and the weight room.
Paul Heroux (born 1976) is an American politician who is the Sheriff of Bristol County, Massachusetts. He previously served as Mayor of Attleboro, Massachusetts , and a State Representative from the Second Bristol District, elected in 2012.
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.
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 ...
Forum hosts noted that sheriffs have a powerful role, yet in the last election for sheriff in 2016, 670,000 people left the spot blank on their ballot statewide while 66,000 did so in Bristol County.
This is a list of law enforcement agencies in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. According to the US Bureau of Justice Statistics' 2008 Census of State and Local Law Enforcement Agencies, the state had 357 law enforcement agencies employing 18,342 sworn police officers, about 280 for each 100,000 residents.
The U.S. state of Massachusetts has 14 counties, though eight [1] of these fourteen county governments were abolished between 1997 and 2000. The counties in the southeastern portion of the state retain county-level local government (Barnstable, Bristol, Dukes, Norfolk, Plymouth) or, in one case, (Nantucket County) consolidated city-county government.
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