The jail’s own cameras caught what the room was meant to hide — and a Maine grand jury has now handed up the indictment.
The no-camera room
Nicholas Fellows, 37, worked as a corrections officer at Kennebec County Jail. According to court documents, jail video showed him walking an inmate into a room with no cameras. Staff searching the facility found explicit notes between the two — the kind of paper trail that turns a rumor into a case.
What she told the detective
The inmate told investigators Fellows orchestrated all of it — the notes, the room, the timing. That account, combined with the video and the notes, carried the case to a Kennebec County grand jury, which handed up the indictment this week on two felony counts. In Maine, guard-inmate contact is a felony regardless of who claims to have consented — the law treats the power imbalance as the offense.
Bail, then charges
Fellows was arrested in August and freed on ten thousand dollars bail. The indictment now formalizes the charges he’s been facing since then, and the case moves toward arraignment in Maine courts. The jail has not said whether he remains employed.
What’s next
An arraignment date has not been publicly listed yet. If convicted on both counts, Fellows faces years in the kind of facility he worked in — on the other side of the glass. He is presumed innocent until proven guilty.
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