Keywords: Maine Jail
Item 16293
Houlton Court House and County Jail, ca. 1900
Contributed by: Aroostook County Historical and Art Museum Date: circa 1900 Location: Houlton Media: Photographic print
Item 26479
Aroostook County Jail, Houlton, 1895
Contributed by: Mark & Emily Turner Memorial Library Date: 1895 Location: Houlton; Chicago Media: Photographic print
Item 109337
Somerset County Jail drawings, Skowhegan, 1976
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1976 Location: Skowhegan Client: Somerset County Architect: Eaton W. Tarbell
Item 110224
Cumberland County Courthouse & Jail, Portland, 1970-1987
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1970–1987 Location: Portland Client: Cumberland County Architect: Wadsworth, Boston, Dimick, Mercer & Weatherill
Exhibit
The boundaries of Maine are the product of international conflict, economic competition, political fights, and contested development. The boundaries are expressions of human values; people determined the shape of Maine.
Exhibit
The history of the region now known as Maine did not begin at statehood in 1820. What was Maine before it was a state? How did Maine separate from Massachusetts? How has the Maine we experience today been shaped by thousands of years of history?
Site Page
The Freedom & Captivity digital collection in the Maine Memory Network, and the complete digital archive housed at Colby Special Collections, is a repository of personal testimonies, ephemera, memorabilia, artifacts, and visual materials that capture multiple dimensions of the experiences of incarceration for individuals, families, and communities, as well as for survivors of harm.
Site Page
Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection - Crime & Disaster - Page 1 of 2
"… murders before he committed suicide in an Augusta jail cell in 1925. James Mitchell James M. Mitchell arraignment, Portland, 1930Maine…"
Story
Used, Abused, Battered, and Confused
by Anonymous (Maine Correctional Center)
The experience of domestic violence and the criminal justice system in Maine
Story
If You Knew My Story
by Anonymous (Maine State Prison)
A story about incarceration in Maine
