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| Franklin County jail to return to full-time lockup status |
| By centralmaine.com- Kaitlin Schroeder |
| Published: 01/14/2015 |
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The Franklin County Detention Center will be upgraded to a fully operational jail after a state board agreed to allow the county to hold inmates longer than the current 72-hour limit. The jail’s re-opening is intended to help with severe overcrowding in jails elsewhere in the system, such as in Kennebec County, where the jail is sometimes more than 40 inmates over capacity, “becoming dangerous for the facility,” according to Ryan Thornell, executive director of the state Board of Corrections, which voted Monday night to end the limits on inmate stay at the Franklin County facility. The move resolves, at least temporarily, years of conflict between the county and the state about the partially closed jail, and it is intended to resolve overcrowding in jails across the state. However, the board’s executive director said the jail system as a whole remains mired in unresolved financial problems as it faces a looming $2.5 million shortfall. Read More. |
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