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PublishedAugust 24, 2022
Federal judge approves plan to reimburse Maine inmates who lost unemployment benefits
The state will return more than $163,000 in seized unemployment benefits to 54 people who were incarcerated in Maine in 2020 and barred from the state's work-release program during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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PublishedJuly 23, 2022
State appears to be moving forward with proposal for youth detention centers in several Maine locations
The Good Will-Hinckley campus in Fairfield is one of 15 sites under consideration for "therapeutic residences" should lawmakers choose to close or downsize the Long Creek Youth Development Center in South Portland, according to a state Department of Corrections report.
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PublishedFebruary 21, 2022
Family looks for answers after alleged assault at Windham prison leaves 30-year-old with traumatic brain injury
Investigators told the family of Renaldo Jones that they believed he was assaulted by his cellmate. But family members still have many questions.
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PublishedFebruary 3, 2022
Maine Voices: Legislature should ban solitary confinement in Maine’s jails, prisons
L.D. 696 will put an end to a practice that has no rehabilitative purpose and that harms people who are incarcerated.
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PublishedJanuary 14, 2022
New superintendent hired for Long Creek, Maine’s beleaguered youth prison
Lynne Allen comes to Maine from the Massachusetts Department of Youth Services. She succeeds Caroline Raymond, who resigned in September after a series of violent incidents at the South Portland facility.
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PublishedDecember 12, 2021
Our View: New study finds same old problems at Long Creek
Despite promises of reform, youths who need psychiatric treatment are still being held in a prison.
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PublishedNovember 18, 2021
Maine State Prison inmates in solitary confinement end hunger strike
Inmates in the most restrictive unit at the Maine State Prison have stopped refusing their meals.
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PublishedOctober 18, 2021
South Portland police respond to unrest among incarcerated youths at Long Creek
Authorities say no one was injured but property was damaged in the incident Sunday night at the state's Long Creek Youth Development Center.
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PublishedSeptember 14, 2021
Our View: Troubling reports of Long Creek restraint use
The state’s youth prison should not stay open if it is still using dangerous techniques it was warned about in 2017.
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PublishedJuly 25, 2021
Maine came closer than ever to closing its youth prison. What happens next?
Other states are looking for models that are less punitive and more effective for rehabilitation of juvenile offenders, and Maine is moving in that direction too.
Maine Department of Corrections
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