including charge lists and glass plate negatives of inmate photos, are currently collecting dust in the Ash Street Jail's attic. The New Bedford Whaling Museum is working with the Bristol County ...

NEW BEDFORD — A 52-year-old city man ... a spokesman for Bristol County Sheriff Thomas M. Hodgson. The prisoner was brought to the Ash Street Jail by New Bedford police and placed in a cell ...

(WJAR) — Since the late 1800’s, the Ash Street Jail in New Bedford has been taking in inmates from all throughout Bristol County. But for the past several years, law enforcement is saying that ...

NEW BEDFORD — Bristol County Sheriff Paul Heroux said he wanted to impress the legislative delegation touring the Ash Street Jail Friday morning with an important fact: This is one old building.

As far back as the 1980s, Sheriff David Nelson said he hoped to close the Ash Street Jail ... governor, Bristol County’s commissioners, Dartmouth’s town government and New Bedford’s mayor ...

NEW BEDFORD — The 136-year-old Ash Street Jail is literally crumbling, Bristol County Sheriff Paul Heroux said Monday. Bricks, Heroux said in an email to state legislators, “are starting to ...

NEW BEDFORD — A 52-year-old New Bedford man ... a spokesman for Bristol County Sheriff Thomas M. Hodgson. The prisoner was brought to the Ash Street Jail by New Bedford police and placed ...

NEW BEDFORD ... that “jail should be jail.” Today, attitudes have changed. Some inmates prefer the Ash Street Jail, which no longer double bunks, to the 1,100-bed Bristol County House ...

NEW BEDFORD — Was notorious accused Fall River ax murderer Lizzie Borden's bed located at the country's oldest jail? “It’s sort of like a Bristol County Sheriff’s Office legend," Jonathan ...