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| 'Hard choices' needed for Androscoggin County Jail |
| By sunjournal.com- Daniel Hartill |
| Published: 10/20/2014 |
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LEWISTON — More than two decades after Tim Lajoie walked inside a Maine cell block as a corrections officer — in 1991 at the Maine Correctional Center in Windham and in 2004 at the Androscoggin County Jail — the Lewiston Republican wants a jail of his own. Lajoie wants to be the county's sheriff. He wants to restructure the Androscoggin Sheriff's Department to be more inclusive, encouraging more ideas from its rank-and-file corrections officers, patrol deputies and dispatchers. He wants wrestle control of the jail from the state — "I think local control is always better" — and he wants to encourage local police agencies to book fewer people in the jail who are accused of non-violent, misdemeanor crimes. Read More. |
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