Two Bridges Regional Jail Correctional Administrator Colonel Mark Westrum was elected President of the Maine Jail Administrators Association at its annual meeting in South Portland Feb. 3.
Westrum has served as the Correctional Administrator at Two Bridges Regional Jail since August 2008 after serving four terms as Sagadahoc County Sheriff.
“My nomination and subsequent election came as a complete surprise and is a huge honor,” Westrum said. “We have a lot of work ahead of us during this next legislative session, it is important that we in county government are protecting our taxpayers while ensuring that our inmates are not merely warehoused in our facilities during these tough economic times.”
Westrum served as President of the Maine Sheriffs’ Association from 1999-2001 and again in 2003. He was also the first chairman of the Lincoln and Sagadahoc Multicounty Jail Authority from 2003 until 2007. He currently serves as the Co-chair of the Board of Corrections Pretrial-Diversion -Reentry Sub-Committee as well as the Board of Corrections Working Group.
“I look forward to working in a leadership position once again with my peers in the Maine Jail Association and Maine Sheriffs’ Association. We have a daunting task ahead of us as we work towards strengthening the new unified corrections system” Westrum said.
For more information Col. Westrum can be reached at 882-2601.
