The Maine State Prison and Bolduc Correctional Center, both in Warren, along with the Long Creek Youth Development Center in South Portland and Mountain View Youth Development Center in Charleston, cleared a major hurdle on the way to final certification by the American Accreditation Association board later this year by earning nearly perfect reviews during recent audits.
The ACA, based in Maryland, has already presented its final certification to medium-security Maine Correctional Center in Windham.
An audit of the adult Charleston Correctional Center is planned, but the state has no immediate plans for reviews of the other facilities, including the Downeast Correctional Center, located in a former Air Force facility in Bucks Harbor, and Central Maine Pre-Release Center in Hallowell.
The facilities that have been audited account for about 85 percent of the Maine corrections system’s population.
To win certification, a facility must score 100 percent on 44 mandatory life and health safety standards, and at least 90 percent on non-mandatory standards.
Each Maine facility audited scored 100 percent on mandatory standards. Mountain View scored 99.5 percent on non-mandatory, while Long Creek scored 99 percent, the state prison 98.3 percent and Bolduc 98 percent.
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