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Maine Department of Corrections

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Abbreviation
  
MDOC

Population
  
1,329,328

Operations jurisdiction*
  
State of Maine, USA

Headquarters
  
Augusta, Maine

Maine Department of Corrections

Legal personality
  
Governmental: Government agency

General nature
  
Law enforcement Civilian police

The Maine Department of Corrections is a state agency of Maine that is responsible for the direction and general administrative supervision, guidance and planning of both adult and juvenile correctional facilities and programs within the State. The agency has its headquarters in Augusta. As of January 2016, the Maine DOC had 2,223 inmates in its custody.

Contents

The Maine Department of Corrections selected CMS as a party to begin a contract with in early April 2003.

Adult Institutions

  • Bolduc Correctional Facility (inmate capacity 222)
  • Charleston Correctional Facility (inmate capacity 145)
  • Downeast Correctional Facility (inmate capacity 148)
  • Maine Correctional Center (inmate capacity 662)
  • Women are incarcerated in that unit's Women's Center
  • Maine State Prison (inmate capacity 916)
  • Southern Maine Re-Entry Center (inmate capacity 64)

    • Juvenile Institutions

    The Division of Juvenile Services operates juvenile reformatories. The headquarters of the division is in the Elkins Building in Augusta.

  • Long Creek Youth Development Center (South Portland) - The Arthur R. Gould School (ARGS) is the educational program for the inmates.
  • It has both male and female inmates. It began receiving female inmates after the Stevens School closed in 1976. It was established by the Maine Legislature in 1853 as the Boys Training Center.
  • Mountain View Youth Development Center (Charleston) - The facility serves 14 counties in central, east, and northern Maine. The counties are Androscoggin, Aroostook, Franklin, Hancock, Kennebec, Knox, Lincoln, Oxford, Penobscot, Piscataquis, Sagadahoc, Somerset, Waldo, and Washington.
  • This center has long-term sentenced male inmates, as well as male and female inmates awaiting trial. It has 187 beds.

    • References

    Maine Department of Corrections Wikipedia
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