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820. Opened. 2002. Managed by. Maine Department of Corrections. Warden. Matthew Magnusson. 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.
Maine Correctional Center. Coordinates: 43.7268°N 70.41432°W. The Maine Correctional Center is a medium/minimum security prison in South Windham, Maine. It is operated by the Maine Department of Corrections and has an inmate capacity of 662, making it the second largest prison in the state. All residents sentenced to less than five years are ...
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. The agency has its headquarters in Augusta. [1]
Opened. 1908. Closed. 1974. Portsmouth Naval Prison is a former U.S. Navy and Marine Corps prison on the grounds of the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard (PNS) in Kittery, Maine. The building has the appearance of a castle. The reinforced concrete naval prison was occupied from 1908 until 1974.
April 22, 2003. The Maine Industrial School for Girls, also once known as the Stevens School and the State School for Girls in Hallowell, is a former juvenile detention and education facility on Winthrop Street in Hallowell, Maine. The school operated from its founding in 1874 until the mid-1970s. Its campus, listed on the National Register of ...
From the efforts at the Walnut Street Jail and Newgate Prison, two competing systems of imprisonment emerged in the United States by the 1820s. The "Auburn" (or "Congregate System") emerged from New York's prison of the same name between 1819 and 1823. [110] And the "Pennsylvania" (or "Separate System") emerged in that state between 1826 and ...
www.windhammaine.us. www. .windhammaine. .us. Windham is a town in Cumberland County, Maine, United States. The population was 18,434 at the 2020 census. [2] It includes the villages of South Windham and North Windham. It is part of the Portland – South Portland – Biddeford, Maine Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Hancock County Jail. The former Hancock County Jail is located at 40 State Street in Ellsworth, the county seat of Hancock County, Maine. Built in 1885–86, it has a well-appointed living space for the jailer in the front, and a series of cells in the back. It was operated as a jail until the early 1970s, and is now home to the Ellsworth ...