Dr. Nirav Shah, director of the Maine CDC, does not know when the state will start offering shots to incarcerated people because doses are ‘at a premium.’
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Sen. Eric Brakey opposes restricting inmate communication
AUGUSTA — More than two dozen people turned out Monday to oppose a proposed disciplinary policy governing inmates in the state’s prisons. No one spoke in favor of the proposed rules at a more than two-hour hearing held before Maria Lucia, an employee of the Maine Department of Corrections, who drafted the policy. She said […]
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Street Talk: The First Amendment, locked in a cage
It was a prison inmate who first explained to me that the income tax may be unconstitutional and he urged me to look into it. I did, and damn if he didn’t have a point. It was a prisoner who best described the burning thirst of addiction and another who explained the weird compulsions that […]
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Maine considers restricting inmate communications
AUGUSTA — The Maine Department of Corrections is proposing changes to the rules that govern the way prisoners communicate with the outside world. The list of proposed changes includes prohibiting prisoners from soliciting or communicating with a pen pal, publishing a byline or “acting as an agent of the news media.” Maine Public Broadcasting Network […]
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LaPlante named new director of security at Department of Corrections
AUGUSTA — Longtime Maine prison guard Gary LaPlante is the new director of security for the Maine Department of Corrections. The department announced LaPlante’s appointment Wednesday. LaPlante became a guard at the Maine State Prison in Thomaston more than 25 years ago and has served as a sergeant, correctional investigator and correctional captain in the […]
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LePage names Fitzpatrick as acting head of Corrections
AUGUSTA — Maine Gov. Paul LePage has appointed an associate commissioner in the Department of Corrections to serve as the agency’s acting commissioner. LePage said Monday that Dr. Joseph Fitzpatrick will fill the post left vacant by the departure of Commissioner Joseph Ponte, who accepted a job as commissioner of New York City’s jail system […]
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Committee cuts out ‘shoot-to-kill’ rule for Windham prison
AUGUSTA — A proposal that would have allowed the use of deadly force against any prisoners attempting an escape from the Maine Correctional Center in Windham was stripped from a bill Monday that makes other changes to the state’s Department of Corrections. In a 12-1 vote, the Legislature’s Criminal Justice and Public Safety Committee agreed […]