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30 Jun 2009, 7:32 pm
Higgins Over the past year, the Maine State Prison has been the scene of a murder, a hunger strike and a hostage crisis that have frayed nerves at the 900-inmate facility in Warren. [read post]
30 Jun 2009, 10:29 pm
7-1-2009 Maine:Over the past year, the Maine State Prison has been the scene of a murder (Sex Offender Sheldon Weinstein, 64, from New Hartford, N.Y), a hunger strike and a hostage crisis that have frayed nerves at the 900-inmate facility in Warren. [read post]
11 Mar 2013, 1:22 pm
Maine's state motto is Dirigo, "I lead" in Latin. [read post]
24 Jun 2008, 2:25 pm
As noted in today’s Press Herald, the department of corrections in the state of Maine had planned to list online information on all state prison inmates and others who are on probation — roughly 10,000 people. [read post]
18 Mar 2013, 9:14 am
Screen shot of the video from Portland Press HeraldLocal reporter David Hench at the Portland Press Herald wrote a great piece this weekend about Maine State Prison inmate Paul Schlosser. [read post]
14 Oct 2009, 9:04 am
Barnhart, who is now warden of a facility in Michigan, will take the reigns of the Maine State Prison in Warren in December. [read post]
29 Jul 2018, 4:48 pm
Prisons have many expenses related to their main function of confining lawbreakers. [read post]
3 Oct 2012, 3:26 pm
Just one year ago the State of California enacted AB109, or as codified Penal Code section 1170(h), which allows specified non-violent and non-sex offenders to serve their prison term in local county jails including San Jose's Main Jail or the Elmwood facility in Milpitas. [read post]
24 Apr 2022, 5:00 am
Main Differences Between New Jersey County Jails and State Prisons The main difference between New Jersey county jails and state prisons is the reasons for inmates’ stays. [read post]
26 Jun 2019, 6:05 pm
Maine's Medicaid covers Hepatitis C drugs, but the state won't pay inmates dying of the disease behind bars. [read post]
9 Jul 2013, 7:29 am
In my last post, I briefly stated that prosecutorial filings have driven prison growth, at least since 1994. [read post]
25 Jun 2013, 8:35 am
Maine State Prison Hospice RoomThe Main Public Broadcasting Network is doing a 3-part series on end-of-life care in prison. [read post]
9 Mar 2007, 3:29 am
No one testified against the bill.UPDATE: Sunday's Portland (ME) Press Herald reports on the continuing controversy at the Maine State Prison in Warren over whether the state has done enough to accommodate the religious practices of 18 Native American inmates. [read post]
4 Jan 2009, 10:24 am
Some related posts: Are all states going to need to create old-age prisons? [read post]
8 Jul 2011, 9:54 am
In fact, in the last few years, states as diverse as Texas, Maine, Colorado, New Mexico, Illinois and Mississippi have begun to question the overuse of solitary confinement, its costs, and its harmful impact on prisoners and ultimately, public safety. [read post]
27 Jul 2018, 3:26 am
A Maine man is suing the state Department of Corrections, saying it won’t let him continue to take his opioid withdrawal medications in prison. [read post]
30 Jan 2020, 4:05 am
Attorney's Office for the District of New Jersey announced this week:The leader and the main treasurer of the Israelite Church of God in Jesus Christ were sentenced to federal prison today for their respective roles in a scheme in which both men caused the church to pay millions of dollars in personal expenses for the leader that the leader then omitted from his personal tax returns.The two men had previously pleaded guilty to one count of conspiring to defraud the United… [read post]
6 Mar 2008, 5:45 am
The Pew Center on States had nice things to say about Texas' prison and probation reforms from 2007, citing them as the main reason for the state's high score on it's state report card:As last year's budget deliberations began, Texas was looking at a 17,000-bed shortage of prison space over the next five years. [read post]
5 Nov 2020, 11:28 am
Put another way, in the last year, Texas reduced its prison population by more prisoners than most states incarcerate en toto! [read post]
4 Apr 2019, 2:00 pm
” Perhaps for this reason, the main vehicle for oversight of conditions in U.S. prisons has been the federal courts. [read post]
