Two Bridges Regional Jail Administrator Col. James Bailey says he saw the Sept. 6 Boston Globe article mentioning the Wiscasset jail as a newly contracted facility being added by the Immigration Customs and Enforcement agency as a new location holding detainees, but he doesn't know anything about the plan. 

On Sept. 24, Bailey responded to an email request regarding the Boston Globe article from the Boothbay Register. "I have seen this article, however, Two Bridges has not had any discussions or do we have any plans to discuss any increases in ICE holdings at the facility.  I hope this helps answer your question."

In the article's headline, "ICE begins new surge in Boston, as its deportation machinery hardens  into place in New England," the Boston Globe reports amid a new enforcement surge unfolding in the Boston area, U.S. ICE has expanded its presence and reach around the region through cooperative local law enforcement agencies agreements, additional detention facilities and support services, and swift relocation of detainees away from their familes and sympathetic courts.

By the year's end, ICE will have more than 1,600 detention beds in New England, according to an internal road map obtained by the Washington Post shared with the Boston Globe. Those new facilities are in the jails of New Hampshire counties Hillsborough, Merrimack and Rockingham along with a new federal jail in Berlin, New Hampshire. Two Bridges Regional Jail in Wiscasset was identified as the fifth facility. 

On Sept. 19, the Boothbay Register called the Boston ICE and left a message seeking a response. On Sept. 21, an email was sent to Boston ICE seeking a response, and on Sept. 22 Boston ICE replied it had received the request for comment, but didn't respond about their plans for using TBRJ to hold additional detainees. 

Under TBRJ policy, it does not hold ICE detainees under a federal administrative warrant. The only prisoners it holds must have committed a crime within the U.S.