WARREN — The Maine Department of Corrections says that a 68-year-old inmate at Maine State Prison in Warren has died. Officials said that the Paul Henry Gray of Aroostook County died at about 5:30 a.m. Wednesday at Portland’s Maine Medical Center. He had served about 21 years of the 55-year sentence for murder that he […]
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Widow of sex offender killed in prison paid $100,000 to settle claim
WARREN — The widow of a 64-year-old man, who was killed at the Maine State Prison while serving a sentence for sexually assaulting a child, has been paid $100,000 to settle her claim against the state. Janet Weinstein originally notified the state that she intended to seek more than $1 million in damages for the […]
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Maine State Prison inmate allegedly admits he killed prisoner as retribution
WARREN, Maine — Richard Stahursky, the Maine State Prison inmate accused of beating and stabbing another prisoner to death last week, allegedly said he killed Micah Boland because the victim made false allegations against him and caused him to lose a job within the facility. Stahursky, also known as Richard Clement, 35, was charged Tuesday […]
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Former Jay man dies at Maine State Prison
WARREN — The Department of Corrections reported that inmate George Henry O’Donnell of Jay died Friday morning at the Maine State Prison. O’Donnell, 79, died at approximately 3 a.m., according to spokesman Scott Fish. According to department policy and the Attorney General’s Office protocols, state police and the state medical examiner were notified. At the […]
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New mental health unit at Maine State Prison met with optimism
WARREN — Last spring, Maine Corrections Commissioner Joseph Ponte said that during a cabinet meeting Gov. Paul LePage leaned over and said to him that more beds for the seriously mentally ill were needed. And with the state’s psychiatric hospital grappling with handling violent patients, the state came up with a plan. That led to […]
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Prison hospice program comforts the dying and changes the living
WARREN — Sergio Hairston thought he was prepared to watch someone die. The 25-year-old Lewiston man was at a bedside in the Maine State Prison’s hospice room watching a sick fellow inmate. “I always thought that I knew everything and could handle every situation,” said Hairston, an inmate since his conviction at 19 years of […]
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14 Degrees of change
WARREN — Sergio Hairston played varsity football for Lewiston High School, but the running back had spotty attendance and left school in October 2006, his senior year. Five months later, the 18-year-old stabbed Richard Lessard to death over a $250 drug debt and is serving a 15-year sentence for manslaughter at the Maine State Prison. […]
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Tears amid pomp, circumstance of college graduation ceremony at Maine State Prison
WARREN — Robin Gibson of Portland has made the long drive north to visit her brother at Maine State Prison many times over the decades he has been incarcerated there. But she has never traveled for such a happy reason as she did on Monday, when Gibson and other family members went to see her […]
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In Rebuttal, G. Dunne: The underlying problem
While there is little doubt that Maine’s mental health system is in serious need of reform, housing difficult patients in the Maine State Prison is not the solution (editorial, Sept. 15: “Riverview’s most dangerous patients must be moved”). The criminal justice and mental health systems are separate entities and should remain that way. Those found […]
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Maine State Prison looking to fill 20 job openings
WARREN (AP) — Corrections officials are looking to fill 20 jobs at the Maine State Prison in Warren. The Department of Corrections said it wants to fill the correction officer openings by Aug. 26. The jobs pay an average of $34,000 a year with benefits. Officials said besides having a strong work ethic, applicants need […]