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Lawsuit Calls For Emergency Release of ICE Detainees in a Massachusetts County

People held in Bristol County are ‘extremely agitated and panicking’ due to unsanitary conditions and overcrowding amid the coronavirus outbreak.

Julia Rock, Sara Van Horn Mar 30, 2020

ICE Protester to Face Trial in ‘Build the Wall’ Sheriff’s Massachusetts County

Bristol County Sheriff Thomas Hodgson, who once offered prisoners at his jails as laborers to build the border wall, is one of many sheriffs who partners with the agency.

Ella Fassler Mar 04, 2020