MADISON (AP) — A Maine county jail has begun accepting out-of-county inmates after resolving a dispute with the state Board of Corrections over payments for those prisoners.
Somerset County jail officials stopped housing out-ofcounty inmates in May because the state had withheld $300,000 in payments to house them.
The state’s 2008 jail consolidation law turned most of Maine’s county jails into temporary housing facilities where inmates are held until being transferred to four regional cost-effective jails, including the Somerset County jail. The state is supposed to reimburse those jails, but Somerset County officials said the state was withholding money.
The jail has agreed to take in out-of-county inmates again after the Board of Corrections agreed to pay back $280,000 it owes from last year and fulfill its annual obligation.
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