A steady, years-long stream of departures at the jail has turned a small COVID-19 outbreak into a full-blown crisis.
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Ohio fugitive wanted for drug felonies arrested in Harpswell
Brian Woods, 46, was wanted in Ohio for multiple felonies including trafficking fentanyl.
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Indictment charges corrections officer with assaulting inmate at Cumberland County Jail
Vinal Thompson, 40, has been on paid administrative leave for more than a year in connection with the July 2020 incident.
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COVID-19 outbreak prompts Cumberland County jail to divert prisoners
The jail says an outbreak affecting 51 inmates and 2 staff is forcing it to send anyone arrested in Cumberland County to the York County Jail in Alfred or the Two Bridges Regional Jail in Wiscasset.
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Former Cumberland County Jail officer charged with gross sexual assault of inmate
Investigators say Jonathan Williams, 30, had sexual contact with a person incarcerated in the jail’s community corrections center in 2019.
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COVID-19 outbreak infects 29 at Cumberland County Jail
The coronavirus has infected 27 inmates and 2 staff members, the jail said Tuesday.
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Cumberland County settles lawsuit over alleged assault on inmate
The former inmate received $41,000 as part of the settlement, the county confirmed this week.
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Cumberland County Jail gets $900,000 federal grant for drug treatment
The jail has partnered with community agencies to improve substance use disorder treatments for inmates while they’re incarcerated and afterward.
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Former inmate sues over alleged assault by Cumberland County Jail guard
A man who was punched in the face by a corrections officer in July is suing the county, the sheriff and the officer who hit him.
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State declares outbreak at Cumberland County Jail, but sheriff says tests are not clear
The state CDC reported 2 new cases of COVID-19 at the jail in Portland on Tuesday, but the sheriff said a retest of one inmate came back negative and a second is pending.