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A pair of Massachusetts lawmakers are hoping to play 'Let's Make a Deal' with inmates looking to shave some time off their prison sentences.

Suspending visitations is a much more sensible idea than releasing inmates before their debt to society has been paid.

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

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.