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Head of state’s Long Creek youth correctional facility resigns
By pressherald.com- Matt Byrne
Published: 03/28/2017

Jeffrey D. Merrill II, administrator of the Long Creek Youth Development Center in South Portland, resigned over the weekend, Maine Corrections Commissioner Joseph Fitzpatrick said Monday.

Merrill had been placed on administrative leave last Wednesday, pending an investigation. His departure comes five months after the first suicide in decades at the youth correctional facility and three weeks after an escape by three residents that ended in a car crash.

Fitzpatrick declined to discuss the investigation that had begun into the facility, which comes at a critical time for Long Creek. A recent spike in the number of youths with acute mental health problems has stretched the abilities of staff at the locked, 160-bed campus. Long Creek has a staff of about 169 and now houses about 80 inmates at a cost of roughly $15.2 million annually.

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