For purposes of this section, "jail authority" means the governmental authority responsible for the operation of a jail, whether a county government or the Lincoln and Sagadahoc Multicounty Jail Authority.

SUMMARY

This bill provides that persons sentenced to more than 6 months incarceration must be committed to the Department of Corrections. Persons sentenced to less than 6 months are committed to county jail. The current breakpoint is 9 months. This bill also requires that the Legislature appropriate amounts to supplement distributions from the County Jail Prisoner Support and Community Corrections Fund so that the combined funding reimburses the county for the average total cost of the support of prisoners committed by court to that county's correctional facilities and the full cost of the support of prisoners committed to the Department of Corrections but who, as a result of violation of probation or parole, are housed in the county jail.