Ash Street Jail

A New Bedford man was arrested by Massachusetts State Police Troopers and a K-9 unit in Taunton Wednesday after fleeing and evading arrest earlier in the day.

Bristol County Sheriff Tom Hodgson says protesters who rallied outside the Ash Street Jail this past week raised the tension level inside the jail which almost sparked an incident. Hodgson tells WBSM's Ken Pittman, problems started when protesters used a bull-horn to deliver their message...

Ken Pittman is a talk show host on 1420 WBSM New Bedford.  He can be heard Saturdays from 9am-Noon.  The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of the author.   WBSM's own Greg Desrosiers was there in person to report on the protest of Sheriff Tom Hodgson's policies, including reporting incarcerated suspected criminals here in the country illegally, to ICE officials. The... Read Mo

NEW BEDFORD - A rally protesting several proposed programs by Bristol County Sheriff Thomas Hodgson took place outside the Ash Street Jail downtown Thursday evening.

A number of community organizations plan to picket New Bedford's Ash Street Jail on Thursday afternoon to show displeasure with some of the proposals being put forth by Bristol County Sheriff Tom Hodgson. Among those proposals is an offer to use inmate labor to build a potential border wall between the U...

A 28-year-old New Bedford man is sentenced to 2-and-a-half years in jail, with 18 months to serve, after pleading guilty to an involuntary manslaughter charge stemming from a 2013 incident.