Above Photo: Facebook/ The Fang Collective
Today – the Day of Mourning, organizers with The FANG Collective and community members demonstrated outside the home of Bristol County Sheriff Thomas Hodgson over the county’s “287(g)” agreement with Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
In February 2017 the Bristol County Sheriff’s Office (BCSO), led by Sheriff Hodgson, signed a 287(g) agreement with ICE, which deputizes BCSO personnel the authority to exercise immigration-related functions usually reserved for ICE officers. Barnstable and Plymouth Counties, along with the Massachusetts Department of Corrections have 287(g) agreements with ICE.
This past summer, in response to deplorable conditions at the Bristol County House of Corrections, including inedible food, nearly nonexistent medical care, and abuse from facility employees, ICE detainees launched a hunger strike. The protest was soon joined by the general population at the prison.
3 months ago, in solidarity – FANG blockaded the entrances of the Bristol County House of Corrections with two people climbing 24 foot tri-pods while two others locked into a concrete barricade. Bristol County Sherriffs forcibly pulled apart the tri-pods, injuring both climbers, and cut apart the concrete barricade.
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