Bristol County House of Correction

A New Bedford drug trafficker who assaulted a fellow inmate in the Bristol County jail in Dartmouth was sentenced on Friday to serve five to seven years in state prison.

A Fall River man will be spending two and a half years in jail after a jury convicted him of assaulting another man with a baseball bat in May 2020.

An inmate at the Bristol County House of Correction in Dartmouth has died in an apparent suicide.

Phil Paleologos says the decision to end the partnership between ICE and the Bristol County Sheriff's Office was a political hit job.

Michael Viruet lifted a pipe from a bathroom and attacked correctional officers from his hospital room, prosecutors say.

Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey on Wednesday took aim at statements made by Bristol County Sheriff Thomas M. Hodgson where he blasted the AG's explosive 60-page report that wrapped up her office's six-month investigation into what happened during a violent May 1 altercation at…

Inmates are incarcerated to pay for their crimes against society. They also have a right to be protected from the COVID-19 virus just like everyone else.

Forty-seven inmates have tested positive since the pandemic began, and most have recovered, the Bristol County Sheriff's Office said.

A New Bedford man with a lengthy criminal history was arrested Tuesday morning in Providence, Rhode Island apparently in connection with Monday night's riots and looting in that city.
Bruno Lopes, 24, of 24 Griffin St. in New Bedford, was among more than 60 people taken into custody in Providence eit…

A total of nine county inmates, 18 staffers and one ICE detainee have tested positive at the North Dartmouth correctional campus.