Reentry Center

• ‘we started getting donations of fabric, and thread, and elastic’

  Belfast Reentry Center sews more than 3,500 masks for Waldo County communities, schools

  Thu, 10/01/2020 - 8:45pm

  

  BELFAST — Much like the rest of the country, the Maine Coastal Regional Reentry Center underwent a stark transformation in March, adjusting policies and procedures in an effort to keep residents and staff safe from COVID-19. That included setting up Zoom visits among inmates and their families, and creating more space, and mandating the use of masks. And then, one staff member suggested the Reentry Center get into the mask-making effort, for the sake of the community. The Reentry Center...

• Regional Reentry Center receives grant for Vivitrol, a drug to combat addiction

  Mon, 09/24/2018 - 9:30pm

  

  BELFAST — The Maine Coastal Regional Reentry Center (MCRRC) has been awarded a $20,000 grant by United Midcoast Charities (UMC) to start the Medicated Assisted Treatment program, according to Waldo County Sheriff Jeff Trafton. The grant will allow interested MCRRC residents who are preparing for release and Waldo County residents preparing for release from Two Bridges Regional Jail to begin participating in a drug treatment program. Those who participate in the program will be given an...

• Maine Coastal Regional Reentry Center offers hope, help to the incarcerated

  Mon, 02/19/2018 - 8:30pm

  

  BELFAST — The brown building just off Congress Street, home to the Maine Coastal Regional Reentry Center (MCRRC), is nondescript and gets little notice. Few giving much thought to the dozens of men who call the place home at any given time. The residential facility, which is run by the Waldo County Sheriff’s Office in conjunction with Volunteers of America Northern New England (VOA), “offers transitional services to men serving the remaining 6-18 months of their state and county [jail/prison]...