A Spokesperson for the Bristol County Shierff's Office is confirming what is being termed as ''an incident'' that happened this morning, as a group of prisoners were being moved from one unit to another, will be addressed later this afternoon by Bristol County Sheriff Paul Heroux. 

In a series of statements released today, the Bristol County Sheriff's office is contending that its trying to make the Dartmouth House of Corrections ''more suicide-resistent''.

A report issued this Spring by a leading expert on jail suicides was commissioned after critics of the Bristol Jail System contended that suicides were happening too often in Dartmouth and the Ash Street Jail in New Bedford.