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.
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York County Jail inmate tests positive for COVID-19
The man, who was arrested Wednesday, was asymptomatic initially, but a test came back positive Thursday, the sheriff says.
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Police will investigate Cumberland County Jail guard who punched inmate
Sheriff Kevin Joyce says he is ‘very disappointed’ by what he saw on security footage, and the officer is now on paid administrative leave.
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Jail staff followed rules in pepper spraying mentally ill inmates, corrections department says
But the advocate who sought the review says it makes no mention of accommodations for such inmates as required by law.
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Cumberland County Jail inmate tests positive for COVID-19
All of the jail’s staff and inmates are being required to wear masks.