Somerset County Jail, ME

Somerset County Jail is a county jail at 131 East Madison Road in Madison, Maine, operated by the Somerset County Sheriff's Office under Sheriff Dale P. Lancaster. It moved into its current building on October 30, 2008 and holds both men and women, including pretrial and sentenced Somerset County inmates as well as inmates boarded from other Maine counties and federal authorities. It has a rated capacity of 234 and a budgeted operating capacity of 192.

The Sheriff's Office maintains an online inmate locator at somerset-so-me.zuercherportal.com/#/inmates, linked directly from its Corrections and Public Resources pages. You can also call the jail at (207) 474-7409 to ask directly.

Family and friend visits run Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. and again from 7:45 to 8:45 p.m., plus Sunday from 1:30 to 2:30 p.m. and 3:15 to 4:15 p.m. There is no Friday or Saturday visiting on the jail's published schedule.

Call the jail on Monday or Friday only, between 9 a.m. and 3 p.m., and ask for Officer Karen Blodgett, who schedules family and friend visits. Two different phone numbers appear on the Sheriff's Office's own pages for reaching her, (207) 474-4709 and (207) 474-7409, both ending in extension 2045. We're presenting both since we couldn't confirm which is a typo. Try (207) 474-7409 first, since that's the jail's main published line, and ask staff to connect you if needed.

The Sheriff's Office says money can be added through a kiosk in the jail lobby or online, but it doesn't name the company that runs either option. Call (207) 474-7409 to confirm the current vendor, fees, and deposit limits before sending anything.

The Sheriff's Office confirms Securus Video Visitation for video calls, at a cost it says is comparable to phone rates, but it doesn't separately name the vendor for standard outgoing audio calls. Call (207) 474-7409 to confirm the current phone system.

Personal letters and photos no longer go directly to the jail. Since November 1, 2023, they're mailed to the Securus Digital Mail Center, scanned, and delivered on tablets inside the jail: [Inmate Name and ID#], C/O Securus Digital Mail Center - Somerset, PO Box 20287, Tampa, FL 33622. Legal mail and publications from a recognized publisher still go directly to 131 East Madison Road, Madison, ME 04950.

Yes, with a caveat. The Sheriff's Office links a downloadable Inmate Handbook PDF for its D Pod general population housing, but it's dated January 2010. Some procedures in it, especially anything about mail, are out of date since the jail switched to a scanned digital mail system in November 2023. Treat the handbook as a general reference and call (207) 474-7409 to confirm anything time-sensitive.

Yes. Inmates fill out a Visit Request Form at booking, listing up to 6 adults and 3 children they want approved to visit, and can revise that list on the 15th of each month. This form isn't publicly downloadable since the inmate completes it from inside the jail. As the visitor, your part of the process is calling the jail on Monday or Friday between 9 a.m. and 3 p.m. to be added once the inmate has listed you.

Yes. Somerset County's budgeted operating capacity (192) sits well below its rated capacity (234), which gives it room to board inmates from other counties for a per-diem fee. County budget reporting confirms a new five-year boarding contract with Waldo County and payments from Androscoggin County for boarded inmates. We could not confirm a specific arrangement with Franklin County, despite that being mentioned in Franklin County Jail's own guide. If you're trying to locate someone who may have been boarded here from another county, call (207) 474-7409 or check the online inmate locator.