FOR YEARS, Bristol County Sheriff Tom Hodgson’s office collected hundreds of thousands of dollars annually in telephone fees paid by family members, attorneys, and others who received calls from county jail inmates. Similar structures are set up across the state’s county jail system, and advocates for prisoners have long been trying to get the Legislature to curb […]
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Judge seeks COVID-19 test data on ICE detainees
US DISTRICT COURT Judge William Young is ordering the Bristol County sheriff’s office to begin submitting reports on the number of immigration detainees in its custody who have been tested for COVID-19, and the results. Young, who has released 47 Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainees from Bristol County’s Dartmouth facility as a result of an […]
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Judge asks for list of ICE detainees for potential release
A FEDERAL JUDGE stopped short of ordering the release of federal immigration detainees being held in the Bristol County House of Correction, but he urged officials not to send new detainees there in light of concerns about transmission of the novel coronavirus in correctional facilities. US District Court Judge William Young, in a hearing conducted […]