Kennebec County jail bids come in higher than expected
Officials are looking at scaling back some work and negotiating with bidders before awarding the project.
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Kennebec County officials are revising plans for an expansion at the Kennebec County jail after bids on the project came in more than three times higher than expected.
The bids for converting an indoor recreation space into a two-story space to house 21 inmates, which were opened earlier this month, ranged from $784,700 to $937,500. County officials had expected them to come in between $125,00 to $250,000.
Bids on work to add beds to the Kennebec County Correctional Facility in Augusta, shown here in this February file photo, came in higher than expected, county officials said. Staff file photo by Joe Phelan
She set dinner on the table before sharing the bad news with her 10-year-old son Wyatt.
On and off throughout Wyatt’s life, his father has been incarcerated at the Kennebec County Correctional Facility in Augusta. Most weeks his mom, Courtney Allen, scraped together $50 to pay for a few 15-minute phone calls from the jail. That week she didn’t have the money.
This story was originally published by The Maine Monitor.
The Maine Monitor, formerly known as Pine Tree Watch, is a local journalism product published by The Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting, a nonprofit civic news organization based in Augusta.
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Police provide more details on Thursday’s chase through central Maine
The investigation is still ongoing, the Clinton police chief said, but additional details were available on Friday.
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Joshua Elliott, seen in the passenger seat, is being taken away in a police cruiser Thursday after reportedly leading authorities on a car chase that ended with an hourslong armed standoff.
Taylor Abbott/Morning Sentinel file
CLINTON Additional details have come to light as law enforcement agencies continue to investigate a high-speed chase through central Maine that ended Thursday afternoon in an armed, hourslong standoff on East River Road.
Joshua Elliott, 40, of Clinton is now being held at Kennebec County Jail after being transported from the scene of the standoff Thursday to MaineGeneral Hospital to be evaluated.
Kennebec County Official Charged With Sexual Assault
According to the KJ, 58 year old James Saucier, of Belgrade, was arrested on Thursday by Augusta police.
He has been charged with three counts Gross Sexual Assault Class B. The charges, which carry a penalty of up to 10 years in prison, stem from the alleged assault of a 45 year old woman last spring. The alleged sexual assaults were investigated by members of the Augusta Police Department and the Kennebec County District Attorney’s Office.
Saucier turned himself in to the police station and bailed himself out from there, paying $1,000 cash bail. Bail conditions include that Saucier has no contact with the victim and no contact with any Kennebec County Correctional Facility inmates.