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The Maine State Prison was erected in Thomaston, Maine in 1824 [1] and relocated to Warren in 2002. [2] This maximum-security prison has a capacity of 916 adult male inmates with an average daily population of 900.
Warren is a town in Knox County, Maine, United States. The population was 4,865 at the 2020 census . [ 2 ] It includes the villages of East Warren, Warren and South Warren, the latter home to the Maine State Prison and minimum security Bolduc Correctional Facility.
All following user names refer to en.wikipedia. 2007-11-26 21:31 Hugh Manatee 816×448× (113973 bytes) Warden's residence and eastern wall of prison, Thomaston, ME; from a 1905 postcard published by the Metropolitan News Co. of Boston, Massachusetts.
The Maine Department of Corrections is a government agency in the U.S. state 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.
Thomaston was home to the Maine State Prison until 2002, when it moved to Warren and the former facility was demolished. The prison was locally famous for its shop featuring handmade wares of prisoners and inspired the prison in the film, The Shawshank Redemption. [12] The gift shop still exists today. [13]
On July 6, 1988, twelve-year-old Sarah Cherry was abducted while babysitting at a home in a rural part of Bowdoin, Maine.A couple of items were left in the driveway of the house (the abduction scene) that linked Dennis Dechaine, a 31-year-old farmer, to the crime, such as an estimate with his name on it.
SR 220, of which SR 97 is its former alignment, has its southern terminus here. SR 97 proceeds northeast out of town, passes through Cushing, and then enters Warren, where it ends at US 1 near the Oyster River, just west of Thomaston. The Maine State Prison is located on SR 97 in Warren, near the Cushing town line. [2]
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