Sheriff Hodgson began his law enforcement career in Ocean City, Maryland in the 1970s as a Police Officer on uniformed patrol along with busy boardwalk and thriving community. He worked his way up the ladder, being promoted to Sergeant, Lieutenant and Detective, and held leadership roles in various divisions of the department, including special operations, undercover narcotics and hostage negotiation.
Sheriff Hodgson, a Republican and fiscal conservative at his core, manages and operates a staff of around 600 employees and roughly 800 inmates with the lowest cost per inmate in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. He is the only Sheriff in Mass. to have an accountability management program, which tracks more than 250 operating indicators every day on every shift to find cost savings and control cost overruns in real time. In addition, he implemented the Inmate Community Work program in which pre-release inmates leave the House of Correction every morning to perform work for government agencies, non-profits, churches and community-based organizations in an effort to give the taxpayers a return on their investment. From painting senior centers to landscaping and other types of labor, the taxpayers of Bristol County save roughly $1 million annually.