How does Thomas Hodgson, Sheriff of Bristol County Ma, deal with the most recent suicide in his House of Corrections, the third suicide in as many months, and questions about his suicide rate which, in spite of his false claims to the contrary, are the highest in the country among county jails?

 By ignoring the issue and playing political victim.

“It’s clearly people who have a political agenda, who are trying to use, sadly, someone’s loss and the impacts that it’s had on all the people involved, for their own personal, selfish, progressive agendas. They ought to be ashamed of themselves.”

To him, questioning why he wears the suicide crown should induce shame, while his actions, on the other hand, should just be overlooked.

The Suicide rate in his facilities is the shame.

The most recent suicide happened while the Sheriff was attending a fundraiser for his upcoming reelection campaign, and, obviously, although there is no cause and effect involved, the irony is that as he is raking in the dough for running on his assumed reputation as a good sheriff, yet another suicide happened that sort of belies his claims of efficiency.

The first suicide in this instance of the Bonaventurian Trinitarian Aspect, the belief that bad things come in threes or in numbers divisible by it, was an unidentified 35-year-old man who had only spent one night in jail this past August.

Another male inmate died at new Bedford’s St. Luke’s Hospital in September.

Three suicides, one per month, in three consecutive months, a Hodgsonian Hat Trick of negligence.

The sheriff may have said, “We don’t feel good when we lose anybody in our custody,” but, apparently, not bad enough to accept advice from people who have offered solutions or learn from his fellow county sheriffs how to avoid not feeling good.

His expressions of sadness at each suicide while resisting ideas, offered suggestions, and effective examples from other county jails on how to prevent as oppose lament suicides are the sheriff’s “thoughts and prayers” that excuse him from actually doing something.

A lot of people commit suicide in his jails, feeling bad about it doesn’t quite cut it.

In spite of his record, the sheriff has called these suicides “unfortunate.”

People who have been watching the sheriff’s performance consider them to have been avoidable, not simply unfortunate.

He might excuse things by a vacuous explanation,

“The mental health staff are very vigilant about this. They’re hurt by it as well, because that’s what they do. They’re constantly thinking, ‘Is there something we missed?'”,

but in this, as with Covid when he deflected criticism of his poor leadership as people criticizing his hard-working staff, he avoids any proper next steps by pretending someone is unfairly attacking the staff he must defend when the public knows full well that the staff has to follow his directives and in August, September, and October, these were shown to be faulty and in need of change.

Let his staff do the right thing in the right way, and that would eliminate his claims of falsely blaming the staff for doing what he tells them do.

He is in charge at the sheriff’s office, after all.

“Is there something we missed?”

The more important question is, why does the sheriff ignore professionals who are constantly suggesting ways to prevent suicides and might help people not miss important things.

This is the man who, during the opening months of the Covid Pandemic, refused any advice or involvement in programs that could limit the presence of the virus in his facilities, claiming he had it all under control and that there was no virus in his facilities, but had to admit, when it was found out, that upwards of 50 inmates and several staffers tested positive for the illness that the sheriff claimed was not there.

The sheriff’s spokesperson offered a boiler plate defense that skirts the fact that options are there but are being ignored.,

“We’re following all the proper protocols. We’re doing what we have to do. Unfortunately, this is something that’s not unique.”

Just as a reminder, during an inspection of the sheriff’s House of Corrections as a result of a court order, the sheriff and this same spokesperson claimed the Sheriff Office’s approach to the Covid Pandemic was effective as they were following the protocols which turned out to be protocols issued before Covid even showed up while there were no recent or relevant Covid protocols in the required binder.

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Defending himself against questions of what is happening in his jails that have resulted in his suicide rate, the sheriff said he doesn’t see anything unusual.

“We don’t exceed the national average. We’re not unique. These things can happen.”

That often, though?

Not unique in the Bristol County Sheriff’s facilities, perhaps, but unique when comparing Hodgson’s facilities to other sheriff’s jails.

The facts, however, are that in the last collection of statistics on suicides in jails the national suicide rate in local jails was close to 50 per 100,000 inmates, or 0.05% of the average daily incarcerated population with Hodgson’s facilities, having an average daily population of 655, being ten times the national average with its being 0.46%.

So, sheriff, you do exceed the national average and you are unique.

Since 2006, Hodgson has had 50% more suicides in his jails than Suffolk County, and more than twice as many as Essex and Worcester counties.

And, of course, along with putting this all down to his political enemies, the sheriff needs to blame the person who committed suicide by claiming,

“More often than not, you find that many of these individuals who complete suicide are generally people that don’t give you the heads up even though you’re doing what you’re supposed to.”

Of course, to swallow this, one has to forget the time when everyone connected with the court, including the judge in the case, acknowledged that the just sentenced person seemed to show signs of possibly being suicidal, but was not treated in the jail accordingly, and committed suicide just as warned.

This sheriff, more concerned about his actually false and self-created image, white supremacy, anti-immigrant animus, and cartoonish nationalism wants to be a Western sheriff in an Eastern state.

End his hate and the potential treatment of any one of us who might end up in his facilities, something that many people do not see as happening as they are not criminals and should not be in a facility like those accused of the same things they might do, no matter how minor.

The sheriff has been caught again making excuses for his suicide numbers, but not with making any progress in remediating the situation without going to his political-victim card.

He wants to get reelected to a 6-year term in 2022.

Perhaps, this need to win will have him address his suicide problem realistically so he can show voters he does more than go to DC or anywhere Trump is, make anti-immigrant speeches, mistreat his inmates, and refuse to do anything he assumes is a political attack when in reality it is just citizens of the county who want him to do the actual job he is paid to do and leave his politicking for off duty time and at his own, not the county’s, expense.

For some twisted reason, even if it is just to show he wears the badge and no one can tell him what to do, not even the state’s Attorney General, he refuses to listen to anyone who does not praise him or adhere to his bigotry and refuses to do things for the right reason, i.e. what could prevent preventable suicides. Perhaps he will do the right thing for the wrong reason, again i.e., clean up his suicide rate so he looks good enough to reelect.

Three suicides in three consecutive months.

This one has to go.

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