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By | Bristol County Sheriff Thomas Hodgson has posted dozens of crimes allegedly committed by ICE detainees who were ordered released by a federal judge due to coronavirus concerns.Hodgson’s first “Prisoner Release Alert System” posted on Facebook Monday, and he vowed to continue releasing lists of crimes. Federal Judge William Young ordered the detainees freed after a lawsuit was brought by Lawyers for Civil Rights claiming illegal immigrants were at risk of contracting COVID-19 in detention facilities.“We can’t give the names due to CORI laws, but we can share the charges and/or convictions, if there are any,” said Hodgson in the post, referring to criminal record laws. “And again, we’re doing this for public safety.”The , appearing in bullet points for 37 unnamed detainees, range from individuals with a single OUI count to others with sex and drug charges and some with a long list of offenses including assault with intent to kill, rape of a senior and child abuse. It is unclear which are convictions and which are pending charges.A spokesman for the Bristol County Sheriff’s Office said Monday counsel “was adamant” the release of information was not improper and no CORI laws were violated.Oren Nimni, representing ICE detainees in the civil suit, slammed Hodgson for the release.“Not only is this improper, but it’s unnecessary fear-mongering,” Nimni said. “What the sheriff should be doing is making sure the people in detention, the staff and the correctional officers are safe, healthy and not infected with coronavirus instead of ginning up fear about some old charges, some old convictions.”The jail said earlier this month two officers and a medical staffer tested positive for COVID-19 and had minimal contact with inmates and detainees. No inmates or ICE detainees have been reported to have the disease.The Department of Correction reported this weekend over 100 staff and inmates have been diagnosed with COVID-19, including three deaths at a Bridgewater facility.Nimni said 43 of the initial 61 ICE detainees seeking release from the Bristol County Sheriff’s Office in the lawsuit have already been released while Young was expected to decide on the release of 10 additional detainees Monday afternoon.Jessica Vaughan, of the Center for Immigration Studies, said Hodgson was performing a public service, as ICE only notifies local law enforcement of a detainee’s release and victims may be unaware of the releases.“When these individuals were in jail, they could be sheltered as much as possible from the virus and the public could be sheltered from them,” Vaughan said. “Now the judge has opened up a Pandora’s box of scenarios that could happen where people can get hurt, the virus can spread, the detainee gets sick, or is not able to have treatment for their substance abuse or mental health problems.”We invite you to use our commenting platform to engage in insightful conversations about issues in our community. We reserve the right at all times to remove any information or materials that are unlawful, threatening, abusive, libelous, defamatory, obscene, vulgar, pornographic, profane, indecent or otherwise objectionable to us, and to disclose any information necessary to satisfy the law, regulation, or government request. We might permanently block any user who abuses these conditions.Sign up for email newslettersFollow UsMost PopularClose

By | Bristol County Sheriff Thomas Hodgson has posted dozens of crimes allegedly committed by ICE detainees who were ordered released by a federal judge due to coronavirus concerns.Hodgson’s first “Prisoner Release Alert System” posted on Facebook Monday, and he vowed to continue releasing lists of crimes. Federal Judge William Young ordered the detainees freed after a lawsuit was brought by Lawyers for Civil Rights claiming illegal immigrants were at risk of contracting COVID-19 in detention facilities.“We can’t give the names due to CORI laws, but we can share the charges and/or...

Bristol Sheriff Hodgson reveals crimes of ICE detainees released over coronavirus concerns

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