Bristol County

Months after flooding hit Leominster, Massachusetts, President Joe Biden has approved a disaster declaration, reversing a prior FEMA decision.

President Joe Biden approved a disaster declaration that will help two Massachusetts communities affected by last year’s storm that caused severe flash flooding — reversing the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s decision in February. The storm impacted residents in Bristol and Worcester counties from Sept. 11 to Sept. 13, 2023. The severe flash flooding trapped people in their cars, left behind buckled…

In a place that, by design, is so hard to leave, a new effort is underway to ensure everyone walks out when their sentences are served. Since becoming sheriff of Bristol County, Massachusetts, last January, Paul Heroux has made suicide prevention a priority. “We want everybody to go out better than they arrived,” Heroux said. When Heroux became sheriff after…

Prison suicides have been on the rise across the country for years, and Paul Heroux says Bristol County Jail was seeing three times the national average before he took over as sheriff

Five inmates have been charged following an uprising at Massachusetts’ Bristol County House of Correction last April. The five men are charged under correctional institutions; injury to property for their role in the protest on April 21, which broke out when inmates refused to leave their housing unit for facility renovations, the Bristol County Sheriff’s Office said Friday. The incident...

Officials say the riot started when inmates refused to leave their units for facility upgrades. At the time, there were about 75 inmates in the area of the violence, but only five were captured on video, leading to the charges....

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The April 21 uprising of inmates at Massachusetts’ Bristol County House of Correction brought to light issues that will the county’s sheriff says will take big money to change. Inmates caused extensive damage in the incident that shut down the jail in Dartmouth for hours, smashing windows, flipping beds, fashioning weapons, strewing trash around and more in protest over plans…