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While Penobscot County leaders push for a new jail, he’s spent years fighting against it

Doug Dunbar, a member of the No Penobscot County Jail Expansion group, is pushing for county officials to support more diversion programs instead of building a new facility. Dunbar spends most of his days helping those in need. Credit: Linda Coan O'Kresik / BDN
Doug Dunbar, a member of the No Penobscot County Jail Expansion group, is pushing for county officials to support more diversion programs instead of building a new facility. Dunbar spends most of his days helping those in need. Credit: Linda Coan O'Kresik / BDN

Within the span of an hour last week, Doug Dunbar had driven down dozens of Bangor streets to deliver prepaid cellphones and help someone refill a propane tank needed for heating.


Dunbar didn’t know Brittney Wallace, a woman staying at the Well warming shelter in Bangor, before he delivered her a phone on Thursday. Wallace hadn’t met Dunbar before either, she said, but she had heard about him through other people staying at the shelter.


“He really dedicates his life to this, to helping people,” Wallace said.


 
 
 

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