3/5/09

Click to View: Report to the Court Monitor regarding the Maine Mental Health System -2009

2/18/09

Click Here to download the: Maine Corrections Pharmacy Focus Group Report

 Interim Report to the Joint Standing Committees for Appropriations, Financial Affairs and Health and Human Services

 

 Dated: January 15, 2009

2/17/09

Click Here to view the: Final Report of the Corrections Alternatives Advisory Committee

Click Here to view the: Report of the Ad Hoc Task Force on the Use of Deadly Force by Law Enforcement Officers Against Individuals Suffering From Mental Illness

1/1/09

Happy New Year

Please drive carefully and always wear your seat belt.

  The Penobscot County Sheriff’s Office Joins Acadia Hospital in Opiate Abuse Awareness Campaign

 

    The Penobscot County Sheriff’s Office is pleased to join the Acadia Hospital in Bangor in sponsoring the Close to Home Campaign, designed to educate the Maine communities we serve about the dangers of opiate abuse. Close to Home is a multi-year effort that will focus this year on getting key messages out to the public. The Sheriff’s Office connects to the opiate problem at two different points.  First, deputy sheriffs investigate crimes against the person and also property crimes at an alarmingly increasing frequency as a result of our opiate problem.  Secondly, corrections officers deal with inmates addicted to opiates.  Sheriff Glenn Ross states that approximately 10% of the new arrests are addicted to heroin and another 10% to narcotic painkillers.  This is a tremendous burden on not only the families of the addicted but upon our taxpayers as well.  The Sheriffs Office is a proud partner of Acadia Hospital and we pledge our support to their campaign.

 

Please visit the campaign website at http://www.closetohomecampaign.org/ to learn more about the opiate problem in Maine.

7/28/08
WTOS Radio Holds Concert to Benefit Camp POSTCARD. Click here for link 


5/28/08
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