AUGUSTA — Attorneys for laid-off workers at the Downeast Correctional Facility are demanding the LePage administration reopen the prison or provide back pay following a judge’s ruling that officials illegally closed the facility. LePage’s lawyers countered that the Maine Department of Corrections is working “to determine how to implement the court’s order as quickly as possible” but wouldn’t commit to reopening a prison at the center of a legal and political battle. On Wednesday, Superior Court Justice Michaela Murphy concluded that the LePage administration exceeded its legal authority by effectively closing the minimum-security prison on Feb.