The Detention Center
Two Bridges Regional Jail
- Operated byLincoln and Sagadahoc Multicounty Jail Authority
- Who runs itCol. James Bailey — Correctional Administrator, Two Bridges Regional Jail, appointed by the Not found — the jail is run by the Lincoln and Sagadahoc Multicounty Jail Authority, whose 12-member board is split six and six between the two counties
- Shared facilityYes — Sagadahoc County has no jail of its own; it shares Two Bridges Regional Jail with Lincoln County
- Jail address522 Bath Road, Wiscasset, ME 04578
- Jail phone207-882-4268
- Governing statuteAct to Establish the Lincoln and Sagadahoc Multicounty Jail Authority, enacted May 21, 2003
- BoardTwelve members, six from each county; regular meetings open to the public, held no fewer than six times a year
- Assistant Correctional AdministratorMaj. William Frith
- Beds / year built / cost / fundingNot found — tbrj.org home, jail-authority, staff, FAQ and virtual-tour pages checked, plus the Lincoln County jail page, and the 2025 MDOC Report on Jails, which carries no capacity table
Source: Two Bridges Regional Jail — Jail Authority · checked 2026-08-23
Transparency rating
4/10Partial- ✓The jail is named
- ✗Who is in custody — not published
- ✗Beds and daily population — not published
- ✓What it costs taxpayers
- ✗Deaths in custody — not published
- ✓PREA audits
- ✗Independent inspection — not published
- ✗Who else it holds, and for how much — not published
- ✓How to post bond
- ✗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
- BedsNot found
Since then
- Not found
The Sheriff
Sheriff Joel A. Merry
- Runs the jailStatutorily yes (30-A M.R.S. § 1501), but Sagadahoc has no jail of its own — it co-owns Two Bridges Regional Jail with Lincoln County
- Chief DeputyJason Warlick
- Divisions listedPatrol, Criminal Investigation, Transport, Civil
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Sagadahoc County — Sheriff's Office · 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
West Bath District Court (District Court Region 6)
- Roster not published per county — the Maine Judicial Branch does not publish a judge roster for individual court locations
Sagadahoc County Superior Court
- Roster not published per county — only a statewide list of Superior Court justices is published
- 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
- Sagadahoc County has no jail of its own. It co-owns Two Bridges Regional Jail in Wiscasset with Lincoln County through the Lincoln and Sagadahoc Multicounty Jail Authority (2003). Lincoln County appears in a different research group; the same facility serves both.
- 'named' scored yes because the county's own site carries a 'Jail Services — Two Bridges Regional Jail' navigation entry linking to tbrj.org with the jail's phone number. There is no dedicated jail page on the county site.
- 'prea' and 'bond_info' scored yes on the strength of the jail authority's own site, not Sagadahoc County's. The authority is half-owned and half-governed by Sagadahoc, so it is treated as the county's jail publisher; the county site itself publishes neither.
- TBRJ's FAQ states bail 'can be posted at TBRJ in the reception area 24 hours a day, 7 days a week', by cash or surety bond with deed, plus a $60 bail commissioner's fee.
- 'fees' scored no. The TBRJ FAQ names the vendors (GTL/ConnectNetwork AdvancePay for phone, Renovo for video visitation) and prices some tablet subscriptions (for example 'Streaming Music: Thirty-Day Subscription: $8.99, with an additional $16.00 service infrastructure charge ($24.99)'), but publishes no phone per-minute rate, no video visit rate and no commissary price list.
- 'budget' scored yes: the county publishes an FY27 proposed budget and prior-year budgets and audits at https://www.sagadahoccountyme.gov/government/county_financials/index.php, including a 'Corrections Related Fund' accounting category. The current-year budget PDF is served through a redirect (https://www.sagadahoccountyme.gov/government/county_financials/current_year_budget.php) that could not be opened to verify the jail line amount.
- 'deaths' scored no. Two in-custody deaths at TBRJ were reported in the press (a suicide investigated by state police in April 2024, and an inmate death after a medical emergency), but neither the county nor the jail authority publishes them.
- No inmate roster is published by the county or the jail authority; all roster results are third-party aggregators.
- No boarding or detention contract and no per-diem rate is published by the county or the authority.
- Three county commissioners elected by district: Charles Crosby III (District 1 — Topsham, Bowdoin), Stephen August (District 2 — Bowdoinham, Bath), Todd McPhee (District 3 — Arrowsic, West Bath, Georgetown, Phippsburg, Richmond, Woolwich, Perkins Township). Maine counties have no state-legislator budget delegation.
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Sagadahoc 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.
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Names verified 2026-08-23 · dollars and outcomes still being gathered