Piscataquis County Jail, ME

As far as we could confirm, yes. In July 2025, a state inspection found the jail out of compliance with several health and safety standards, and the Maine Department of Corrections temporarily halted new intakes. The county's corrective action plan was approved, and the jail resumed intakes in August 2025. We found no reports of a further halt or closure since then. Call (207) 564-3304 to confirm current status before you travel, especially if you're trying to reach someone who may be boarded there from another county or the U.S. Marshals Service.

The Piscataquis County Sheriff's Office does not publish an online inmate roster. Call the jail directly at (207) 564-3304 to ask whether someone is in custody. If the person may have moved into Maine Department of Corrections custody, check the statewide Adult Resident/Adult Community Corrections Client Search too.

Visits are held Tuesday 7-8 p.m., Wednesday 7-8 p.m., Saturday 2-3 p.m. and 7-8 p.m., and Sunday 1:30-3:30 p.m. Sunday is reserved for inmates boarded at the jail by other counties or federal authorities. You need to call ahead to schedule your visit.

This is genuinely unclear from the Sheriff's Office's own website. Its main County Jail page says to call (207) 564-9083 on Tuesday or Wednesday between 9 and 11 a.m. Its separate Rules for Visiting an Inmate page says to call (207) 564-3304, option 2, on Monday or Tuesday between 8 and 11 a.m. We're presenting both since we found no way to confirm which is current. Call either number ahead of your planned visit day to confirm the right process.

The Sheriff's Office does not name a commissary or money vendor on its own website. Call (207) 564-3304 to ask how to send money, what it costs, and any limits, instead of guessing based on what other Maine jails use.

The Sheriff's Office does not publish the name of its inmate phone provider online. Call (207) 564-3304 to confirm the current system and how to set up an account to receive calls.

Send mail to: [Full Name], Piscataquis County Jail, 52 Court Street, Dover-Foxcroft, ME 04426. The jail's own rules state that no items can be hand-delivered, so photos and letters have to arrive by mail.

We checked specifically for a downloadable inmate or family handbook PDF and did not find one published on the Piscataquis County Sheriff's Office website. What is published instead are two short pages, one covering visiting rules and one covering the personal items an inmate may keep, both of which this guide draws from directly.

No. Unlike some other Maine county jails, Piscataquis County Jail's process is a phone call rather than a mailed-in form. You call ahead to request a scheduled visit rather than filling out and submitting a written application.

Piscataquis County Jail is a county jail at 52 Court Street in Dover-Foxcroft, Maine, operated by the Piscataquis County Sheriff's Office. It's licensed to hold 38 inmates, with a daily average of 25, and on most days roughly half its population is made up of federal detainees boarded there under contract with the U.S. Marshals Service while awaiting trial.

The jail holds a contract with the U.S. Marshals Service to board federal pretrial detainees, and the Sheriff's Office states that on most days, about half of the jail's population is there for this reason rather than for county charges.

52 Court Street, Dover-Foxcroft, ME 04426. The main line is (207) 564-3304.