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Bristol County Sheriff Paul Heroux is working to prevent inmate suicides
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…
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Bristol County sheriff working to prevent inmate suicides
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