Penobscot County Jail basic information to help guide you through what you can do for your inmate while they are incarcerated. The facility's direct contact number: 207-947-4585
This facility is for adult inmates.
The Penobscot County Jail is a medium-security detention center located at 85 Hammond St Bangor, ME which is operated locally by the Penobscot County Sheriff's Office and holds inmates awaiting trial or sentencing or both. Most of the sentenced inmates are here for less than two years. Penobscot County accepts inmates from surrounding towns, municipalities, the US Marshal's Service and the Bangor Police Department who do not have their own long-term lock-up.
The jail houses both male and female adult prisoners with classifications ranging from minimum to medium to maximum status. Juveniles are booked at the facility but are conditional to a parent under the authority of Probation and Parole, or are taken to
Mountain View Juvenile Correctional Facility in Charleston. Each county is responsible for housing pretrial detainees and sentenced inmates who have a felony sentence of nine months or less or misdemeanor convictions of 364 days or less. State prisons house sentenced inmates with a sentence greater than the above.
Boarding of Inmates in other Facilities – Due to overcrowding and pursuant to State Law, the Penobscot County Jail must remain within its rated population capacity. Whenever this capacity is exceeded, jail officials are required to house inmates in other facilities across the state that has available bed space. This is an inconvenience for the inmate and family but a necessary function of the jail as we regularly have to move inmates for this reason. Unfortunately, inmates are being housed in facilities as far away as York, Cumberland, Two Bridges in Wiscasset and Somerset County. We apologize that for security reasons we are unable to notify inmate or family in advance.
visitation Info
PRISON_NAME – Visitation at PRISON_ADDRESS, PRISON_CITY, PRISON_STATE_ABBR
- Monday 9am – 6pm
- Tuesday 9am – 6pm
- Wednesday 9am – 6pm
- Thursday 9am – 6pm
- Friday 9am – 6pm
All visits are non-contact and conducted through a glass partition. This facility may also have a video visitation option, please call PRISON_PHONE for more information and updates to the current rules and regulations.
Inmates are allowed 2 visitors per day
