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The 14-year-old boy who briefly escaped from Maine’s only youth prison on Friday reportedly broke out of a window and into the facility’s fenced yard, police records show.
“Juvenile escaped out the window and is contained somewhere within the back perimeter,” according to 911 dispatch notes obtained by the Bangor Daily News.
It is still not clear how the boy left the campus of Long Creek Youth Development Center in South Portland, but an officer for the city’s police department later found him drinking from a bottle of alcohol at a nearby gas station less than two hours after prison officials called 911 to report the escape, according the officer’s police report.
The episode is the second escape from Long Creek in a year. In July 2024, two boys climbed onto the prison’s roof and jumped off, then eluded authorities for several days. Earlier that year, in January 2024, a group of boys also broke out of the building but didn’t leave the yard.
Samuel Prawer, a spokesperson for the Maine Department of Corrections, which oversees Long Creek, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
