Ash Street Jail: 190 Years Is Enough – $10M to Shut It Down and Pay for Itself in Under 3 Years

The following is a press release from Sheriff Paul Heroux of the Bristol County Sheriff’s Office. Closing the nation’s oldest continuously operating jail – The Ash Street jail in New Bedford – would cost $10 million (and rising), and pay for itself in less than 3 years. Once housing Lizzy Borden as an inmate from 1892-1893, the Ash …