The Office of Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey today released a scathing report that sharply faults the Bristol County Sheriff s Office for its part in a violent May 1 clash between immigrant detainees at the North Dartmouth ICE detention facility and agents of the law who answer to Sheriff Thomas Hodgson.
The Bristol County Sheriff s Office used excessive force and acted with “deliberate indifference, thereby violating the civil rights of immigrant detainees housed in Unit B of the C. Carlos Carreiro Immigration Detention Center, Healey s office said.
The AG s 60-page investigatory report describes “institutional failures and poor decisions” by leadership at the sheriff s office that culminated in a “calculated use of force” that “unnecessarily caused or risked harm to everyone involved.