Bristol County Sheriff Thomas Hodgson

A trial date has been set for the family of an inmate who committed suicide at the Bristol County House of Correction in Dartmouth nearly seven years ago.

More than 90 inmates and staffers have tested positive since the pandemic began, but last week yielded only two cases.

Hodgson in 2003 posed for an official photo in a tie that some say evokes Confederate imagery.

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.

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