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Sean Rancourt, a resident of the minimum security Bolduc Correctional Facility, was employed by Rockport Steel through a work release program.

An effort to define solitary confinement in Maine law failed to receive a vote in the Legislature this session amid disagreements about how the term should be understood and amendments that criminal justice reform advocates viewed as unacceptable. The Maine Department of Corrections (DOC) has argued that it no longer uses solitary confinement, despite numerous […] The post Are Maine prisoners being held in solitary confinement? Without a definition, it’s hard to say appeared first on Maine Morni

A man being held at Two Bridges Regional Jail has hung himself, in the third suicide since Sagadahoc and Lincoln counties opened the facility on Wiscasset’s Route One in 2006, authorities told Wiscasset Newspaper. TBRJ is doing an internal...

The episode happened days before the union representing teachers, maintenance and supervisory staff sent a letter to state officials describing their “serious safety concerns” about Long Creek.

The strike at the Maine State Prison in Warren started Thursday morning and ended Saturday, according one prisoner.