Waldo County

The Detention Center

Waldo County Corrections Division — 72-hour holding facility

• Operated byWaldo County Sheriff's Office
• Who runs itMatthew Curtis — Chief Deputy — Corrections Division (listed by MCCA's 2026 directory as interim jail administrator), appointed by the The elected Sheriff (the sheriff is the statutory jailer in Maine)
• Full-service jailNo — Waldo closed its full-service jail in 2013 and now operates only a 72-hour holding facility
• Address10 Public Safety Way, Belfast, ME 04915
• Phone207-338-1080
• Hours24 hours a day, 365 days a year
• VolumeBooks more than a thousand prisoners a year
• Where sentenced inmates goTransferred to Somerset County Jail to serve their sentence
• Co-located programMaine Coastal Regional Re-entry Center, for inmates nearing release
• Beds / year built / costNot found — the Corrections Division page, sheriff page, staff directory and county budget page were checked

Source: Waldo County — Corrections Division · checked 2026-08-23

• ✓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 — not published
• ✗Phone, video and commissary rates — not published

This rates disclosure, not conduct — what Waldo County publishes about a jail its taxpayers own, checked 2026-08-23. Nothing here says the jail is run well or badly. Every mark moves the moment the county posts the document.

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 — the county publishes no bed count for the holding facility

The Sheriff

Sheriff Jason Trundy

• TitleHigh Sheriff
• Runs the jailYes statutorily (30-A M.R.S. § 1501), but Waldo runs only a 72-hour holding facility, not a full-service jail
• Chief DeputyMatthew Curtis — also listed as the Corrections Division contact
• LieutenantCody Laite

Source: Waldo 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

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 →