It is time for the Massachusetts Attorney General and any elected official in a local and national elected office to act according to the Spirit of Massachusetts and take immediate action to contact the Department of Homeland Security and demand and establish that I.C.E. sever all ties with Sheriff Thomas Hodgson.

Attorney General Healey has already expressed the same sentiment for disconnection of Sheriff Hodgson from ICE after concluding the nine month’s long investigation into the events of May 1, 2020 at the Carlos Carreiro Immigration Center at the Bristol County House of Correction in Dartmouth.

What happened that day may have come as a surprise to the general public, but it was actually the result of state officials’ ignoring the facts that had been presented showing that the conditions at the detention center needed to be addressed to prevent problems like the eruption on May 1.

In light of the facts presented by legal and community social justice groups, like Bristol County for Correctional Justice, this was not a surprise, and their inaction tacitly gave permission to the sheriff to keep going as he was.

State officials were informed and warned, so the least they can do now is eliminate what is obviously a proven problem.

Letters, affidavits, and post incarceration interviews from detainees, family members of detainees, their lawyers, and doctors, described in detail the conditions experienced by the incarcerated immigrants from the onset of the Coronavirus Pandemic.

In her report, the Attorney General recommended that the Department of Homeland Security immediately terminate the agreements that allow the Bristol County Sheriff’s Office to process and hold detainees from Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE), and went further recommending that the Massachusetts Legislature enact legislation that

“prohibits the Bristol County Sheriff from participating in federal immigration enforcement in any respect.”

The first two recommendations resulting from her office’s investigation were,

“Recommendation Number 1: As expeditiously as possible, DHS should terminate its IGSA and 287(g) agreement with the BCSO. In view of the clear evidence that the BCSO violated the Detention Standards, we urge DHS to terminate its partnership with the BCSO and immediately transfer all federal immigration detainees held at the BCSO to other detention facilities” and

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Recommendation Number 2: As expeditiously as possible, the Massachusetts General Court should enact legislation that: (1) rescinds and/or terminates the authority of the Bristol County Sheriff to enter into IGSAs for the purposes of immigration detention and to enter into 287(g) agreements with DHS; (2) terminates, effective immediately, the IGSAs and 287(g) agreements that are currently in effect; and (3) prohibits the Bristol County Sheriff from participating in federal immigration enforcement in any respect.”

Short of this, knowing full well there would be political opposition to doing the right thing, if this partnership does not end, the report offered fifteen recommendations to deal with all the faults found during the investigation including reviewing  and revising policies and procedures to ensure that they are in compliance with all applicable laws, adopting enhanced language access policies, procedures, and protocols since there is no translator at the ICE detention center, adopting enhanced policies and procedures for progressive de-escalation and conflict avoidance within the context of a calculated use of force, and adopting  enhanced policies and procedures for medical consultation and review before, during, and after a calculated use of force, to name a few.

The Massachusetts Senate also determined that Sheriff Hodgson violated the law when a State Senator was denied access to the Immigration facility the day after May I’s preventable “riot” so that State Senator Sonia Chang-Díaz, co-chair of the Senate’s Racial Justice Working Group and a member of the Joint Committees on the Judiciary, Election Laws, Financial Services, and Public Safety & Homeland Security, would be unable to assess conditions in the facility and the detainees which was clearly a self-protecting violation of Section 36 of Chapter 127 of the General Laws which establishes that a Senator may enter an institution, jail or house of correction without receiving prior approval.

He needed to hide that his public pronouncements about the event, the detainees, and the damage to the facility were not, as it turned out, faithful to observable facts if they were observed.

Other than serving as a political opportunity to aggrandize himself, promote his Joe Arpaio image, and curry the political favor from a now twice impeached, white supremacist, anti-immigrant former president, this report and other reports, statistics and studies, show that the ICE detention center has less to do with law and community safety, especially when the recommendation is for “revising policies and procedures to ensure that they are in compliance with all applicable laws”, and more to do with answering some deep seated psychological need for power and control to the detriment of the people of a state whose laws have long established that

“All persons within the commonwealth, regardless of sex, race, color, creed or national origin, shall have, except as is otherwise provided or permitted by law, the same rights enjoyed by white male citizens, to make and enforce contracts, to inherit, purchase, to lease, sell, hold and convey real and personal property, to sue, be parties, give evidence, and to the full and equal benefit of all laws and proceedings for the security of persons and property. “

Our Congressional Delegation in Washington and our state officials in Boston need to act and end this carnival of bigotry and abuse.

It is time to close the Sheriff’s fetish dungeon.