Bristol County House of Correction

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.

The judge ruled Sheriff Thomas Hodgson showed "deliberate indifference" toward the health of immigrant detainees at the North Dartmouth facility.

Immigrant detainees and Sheriff Thomas Hodgson tell different stories about what happened May 1 at the the Carlos Carreiro Immigration Detention Center.

Atty. Ira Alkalay says the Bristol County Sheriff precipitated the chaotic conflict that left the North Dartmouth ICE lockup with $25,000 worth of damage.

Sheriff Thomas Hodgson said he was hit by a chair during a melee prompted by a disagreement about COVID-19 testing.

Three ICE detainees were transported to the hospital Friday night.

Sheriff Thomas Hodgson says that no inmate has tested positive and that eight symptomatic prisoners have tested negative.

The Office of Sheriff Thomas Hodgson confirmed that Stacey Merkman did not die of COVID-19.