Suffolk County is located in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts,in the United States. As of the 2020 census,the population was 797,936,making it the fourth-most populous county in Massachusetts. The county comprises the cities of Boston,Chelsea,Revere,and Winthrop. The traditional county seat is Boston,the state capital and the largest city in Massachusetts. The county government was abolished in 1999,and so Suffolk County today functions only as an administrative subdivision of state government and a set of communities grouped together for some statistical purposes. Suffolk County is located at the core of the Boston-Cambridge-Newton,MA-NH Metropolitan Statistical Area as well as the greater Boston-Worcester-Providence,MA-RI-NH-CT Combined Statistical Area.
CoreCivic, formerly the Corrections Corporation of America (CCA),is a company that owns and manages private prisons and detention centers and operates others on a concession basis. Co-founded in 1983 in Nashville,Tennessee by Thomas W. Beasley,Robert Crants,and T. Don Hutto,it received investments from the Tennessee Valley Authority,Vanderbilt University,and Jack C. Massey,the founder of Hospital Corporation of America.
In the United States,a sheriff is the chief of law enforcement of a county. Sheriffs are usually either elected by the populace or appointed by an elected body.
Kimberly Ann Guadagno is an American lawyer and politician who served as the first lieutenant governor and 33rd secretary of state of New Jersey from 2010 to 2018.
The Deer Island Prison in Suffolk County,Massachusetts was located on Deer Island in Boston Harbor. Once known as the Deer Island House of Industry and later,House of Correction, it held people convicted of drunkenness,illegal possession of drugs,disorderly conduct,larceny,and other crimes subject to relatively short-term sentencing. When it closed in 1991,some 1,500 inmates were being held at Deer Island.
The Maricopa County Sheriff's Office (MCSO) is a law enforcement agency in Maricopa County,Arizona that was involved in a number of controversies. It is the largest sheriff's office in the state of Arizona and provides general and specialized law enforcement to unincorporated areas of Maricopa County,serving as the primary law enforcement for unincorporated areas of the county as well as incorporated cities within the county which have contracted with the agency for law-enforcement services. It also operates the county jail system. Elected in 2016,Paul Penzone is the current sheriff of Maricopa County. Penzone replaced Joe Arpaio after his 24-year tenure as sheriff.
Secure Communities is a data-sharing program that relies on coordination between federal,state,and local law enforcement agencies. The program was designed to "check the immigration status of every single person arrested by local police anywhere in the country". As part of the program,fingerprints that are taken upon arrest,which are traditionally forwarded to the FBI,are then also forwarded to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). If these finger prints match the DHS's Automated Biometric Identification System (IDENT),then the ICE district office decides whether or not to issue a detainer request which can include requesting that the person be detained for up to 48 hours (I-247D),or a request for ICE to be notified upon their release (I-247N).
Mary Elizabeth Heffernan is an American attorney,judge,and former Massachusetts Secretary of Public Safety. She previously served as the Undersecretary of Criminal Justice from 2007 to 2010. She is also a former Assistant District Attorney for Middlesex County.
Clifford Holmes Marshall was an American politician who served as a State Representative and Sheriff of Norfolk County,Massachusetts.
Marian T. Ryan is the District Attorney (DA) of Middlesex County,Massachusetts,United States. She was the Commonwealth's only female District Attorney from 2013 to 2018. As of 2012,she is one of two,including Andrea Harrington,Berkshire County DA. She is a Democrat.
Thomas M. Hodgson is an American politician who served as Sheriff of Bristol County Massachusetts from 1997 to 2022.
Andrea Joy Campbell is an American lawyer and politician who is serving as the attorney general of Massachusetts. Campbell is a former member of the Boston City Council. On the city council,she represented District 4,which includes parts of Boston's Dorchester,Mattapan,Jamaica Plain,and Roslindale neighborhoods. A member of the Democratic Party,she was first elected to the council in November 2015 and assumed office in January 2016. She served as president of the council from January 2018 until January 2020. Campbell unsuccessfully ran for mayor of Boston in 2021,placing third in the nonpartisan primary election behind Annissa Essaibi George and Michelle Wu,the latter of whom would go on to win the general election.
Elizabeth Miranda is a Cape Verdean-American community organizer and politician. She is a state senator representing the Massachusetts Senate's 2nd Suffolk district after winning a five-way Democratic Primary Election,and advancing to an uncontested race in the 2022 Massachusetts general election. Prior to that,since January 2019,Miranda had served as the Democratic Massachusetts State Representative for the Fifth Suffolk district. Her district comprises parts of the Dorchester and Roxbury neighborhoods of Boston. She is a member of the Massachusetts Black and Latino Legislative Caucus.
Rachael Splaine Rollins is an American lawyer and politician who served as the U.S. attorney for District of Massachusetts from 2022 to 2023. Before that,she was the district attorney for Suffolk County,Massachusetts.
The 2021 Boston mayoral election was held on Tuesday,November 2,2021,to elect the mayor of Boston,Massachusetts. Incumbent mayor Marty Walsh was eligible to seek a third term. However,he resigned as mayor on March 22,2021,after being confirmed as secretary of labor in the Cabinet of Joe Biden. This left the Boston City Council president,at the time Kim Janey,to hold the role of acting mayor until the victor of the election would take office.
Steven W. Tompkins is an American law enforcement official who has served as the Sheriff of Suffolk County,MA since 2013.
Mass. and Cass,also known as Methadone Mile or Recovery Road,is an area in Boston,Massachusetts located at and around the intersection of Melnea Cass Boulevard and Massachusetts Avenue. Due to its concentration of neighborhood services providing help,the area around Mass. and Cass has long attracted a large number of people struggling with homelessness and drug addiction,especially after the closure of facilities on Long Island. It has been characterized as "the epicenter of the region's opioid addiction crisis".
The Glades County Detention Center,at 1297 East State Road 78 in remote Moore Haven,Florida,United States,opened in 2007 with 440 beds. Operated by the Glades County Sheriff's Office,besides Glades County arrestees,90% of its beds house Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainees,which were previously spread around many county jails. It is Glades County's largest employer. It has been the site of widespread abuses,and in 2022,17 members of Congress asked that it be closed.
