Maine Department of Corrections

Published
September 25, 2022

Commentary: Maine correctional system buckling under weight of staffing shortage

Longstanding staff shortages and an overreliance on overtime come with many costs.
Published
August 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.
Published
July 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.
Published
May 10, 2022

Inmate dies 4 months after alleged assault at Windham prison

Earlier this year, investigators told Renaldo Jones' family that he had been attacked by his cellmate, but state officials have refused to answer questions about the circumstances of his death.
Published
April 13, 2022

Three officers caught in York County shakedown finally stripped of police credentials

The revocations end a bizarre, decade-long chapter that began with the daughter of a police officer who went to a concert and then found personal items missing from the limo that had taken her there.

Published
March 4, 2022

Our View: Whatever you call it, solitary confinement should be banned

There’s disagreement over how the practice is used, but by any name, isolation does more harm than good to people incarcerated in Maine.
Published
February 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.
Published
February 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.
Published
January 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.
Published
December 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.