The Detention Center
Piscataquis County Jail
- Operated byPiscataquis County Sheriff's Office
- Who runs itJean Larson — Jail Administrator, Piscataquis County Jail, appointed by the The elected Sheriff (the sheriff is the statutory jailer in Maine)
- Jail address52 Court Street, Dover-Foxcroft, ME 04426
- Jail phone(207) 564-3304
- Licensed capacity38 inmates
- Daily average population25
- Visit scheduling(207) 564-9083, Tuesday or Wednesday 9-11am
- Year built / cost / fundingNot found — county jail page, sheriff page, commissioners page and finance page checked
Source: Piscataquis County — County Jail · checked 2026-08-23
Transparency rating
2/10Closed- ✓The jail is named
- ✗Who is in custody — not published
- ✓Beds and daily population
- ✗What it costs taxpayers — not published
- ✗Deaths in custody — not published
- ✗PREA audits — not published
- ✗Independent inspection — not published
- ✗Who else it holds, and for how much — not published
- ✗How to post bond — not published
- ✗Phone, video and commissary rates — not published
The Building
You paid for it. Here is what the record says it cost.
- Year builtNot found
- Original costNot found
- Paid for byNot found
- BedsLicensed for 38 inmates; daily average 25
Since then
- Not found
The Sheriff
Sheriff Robert Young
- Runs the jailYes — in Maine the elected sheriff has custody and charge of the county jail (30-A M.R.S. § 1501)
- Day-to-day jail managementJail Administrator Jean Larson, under the Sheriff
- AlsoServes civil process, patrol, dispatch and court transport
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Piscataquis County Sheriff's Office — Contact · checked 2026-08-23
The Judges
Maine has a unified state trial court. District Court judges and Superior Court justices are nominated by the Governor and confirmed by the Maine Senate for seven-year terms. They are not elected and they are not county officials — a real difference from Texas and Oklahoma. Source: https://ballotpedia.org/Judicial_selection_in_Maine
Dover-Foxcroft District Court (District Court Region 5)
- Roster not published per county — the Maine Judicial Branch does not publish a judge roster for individual court locations
Piscataquis County Superior Court, 159 East Main Street, Suite 21, Dover-Foxcroft
- Roster not published per county — the site links only to a statewide list of Superior Court justices
- The county's bond schedule
- Share of the jail population held pretrial
- Median time from booking to first appearance
Source: the state judiciary · checked 2026-08-23
The County Commissioners
They pay for the jail. The sheriff runs it.
- What they controlThe detention budget, the building itself, and the agreements that let other agencies rent its beds.
- What they don'tDay-to-day operations. The sheriff is separately elected and answers to voters, not to the board.
- The boardBoard of County Commissioners →
- Where the jail money is decidedAgendas and minutes →
Notes on the record
- Maine DOC inspected the jail 7/21/25-7/22/25 and recorded 'Fail' on both mandatory and desirable standards — the only failing county jail inspection in the 2025 MDOC Report on Jails. Source: https://mainelegislature.org/doc/12491
- After the failed inspection the jail was ordered to stop new intake; it met an August 8, 2025 deadline to file a corrective action plan approved by the DOC Commissioner. Reported findings included inadequate tracking of sharps, insufficient nursing oversight, and outdated/inaccessible medical records. Source: https://wgme.com/news/local/piscataquis-county-jail-meets-deadline-to-submit-plan-addressing-health-safety-violations-maine-corrections
- The county does not publish the inspection report itself — nothing about the 2025 failure appears on piscataquis.us. 'inspections' scored no.
- No county budget document is published on the county site: https://www.piscataquis.us/commissioners/finance/ and https://www.piscataquis.us/commissioners/finance/budget-advisory-committee/ were both checked and contain no budget file. A 2025 county budget PDF exists on the STATE auditor's site at https://www.maine.gov/audit/county/Piscataquis/2025-Piscataquis-County-Budget.pdf but it is a scanned image with no machine-readable text, and it is not the county's own publication, so 'budget' scored no.
- No official inmate roster. Every roster result for this jail is a third-party aggregator site, not the county.
- No bail-posting guidance, no phone/video/commissary rates, no PREA audit, no death-in-custody disclosure and no boarding contract or rate found anywhere on piscataquis.us.
- Three county commissioners elected by district: Paul T. Davis (District 1), Andrew R. Torbett (District 2), Adam B. Coover (District 3). Maine counties have no state-legislator budget delegation; the commissioners adopt the budget with a Budget Advisory Committee.
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Piscataquis County and what it costs the people who live here. Nationally, almost 77% of the people who died in local jails in 2019 had not been convicted of anything, and suicide was the leading single cause of those deaths (Bureau of Justice Statistics, Mortality in Local Jails, 2000–2019).
How much is your sheriff — and your judge — costing you?
Your VOTE is POWERFUL.
The sheriff who runs this jail is elected. So are the commissioners who pay for it.
In Maine your municipal clerk runs the polling place. Links from vote.gov and USA.gov.
Names verified 2026-08-23 · dollars and outcomes still being gathered