AUGUSTA, Maine — After years of struggling to fix Maine’s county jail funding problem, a task force is suggesting methods that members say promote accountability and collaboration to reduce and stabilize costs rather than making big changes to a fraught funding system. The biggest changes proposed in the task force’s report would commit the state’s contribution to jail to low, ending sheriffs’ annual appearances before the Legislature to ask for more money.

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