Last Friday, July 13, an inmate from the Cumberland County Jail failed to return from his place of employment after working at a construction site in Naples earlier in the day.

The inmate, James Brown, 39, of Portland, was hired by a local painter and was expected to return to the Community Corrections Center at 9 p.m. Brown was being held on a judgment and committal for violating a condition of release. Brown’s past criminal history includes various misdemeanor and felony traffic offenses as well as trafficking prison contraband.

Brown was located by investigators at about 4 a.m. Saturday morning at a residence on Grant Street in Portland. He was returned to the Cumberland County Jail without incident.

According to the Chief Deputy Kevin Joyce, this is the first incident where an inmate assigned to work release has walked away from the job site in nearly a year. The jail has about 50 inmates who are nearing the end of their sentence and trying to become reintegrated back into the community. On average, 25 inmates leave the facility on a daily basis to work at various jobs throughout Cumberland County. The remaining 25 inmates are assigned to supervised community service details on a daily basis also within Cumberland County.