DARTMOUTH — Bristol County Sheriff Paul Heroux said a new report from the Massachusetts Office of the Inspector General supports his calls for state funding to install locks on all inmate cell doors at the Bristol County jail in Dartmouth.
In a statement issued Tuesday, June 2, Heroux said the OIG report states “what I have been saying for over three years – we need to put locks on inmate cell doors to make the Dartmouth jail safer, and if we do that, I can close the Ash Street jail in New Bedford and save the state money.”
The OIG’s report, titled, Final Report on Sheriffs’ Budgets and Expenditures and released June 1, found that “the Bristol County House of Correction lacks the proper funding for significant infrastructure upgrades and that such upgrades could ultimately save millions in operational costs.”…