LEWISTON — Nearly three years after Meghan Quinn was forced to kneel in a blood- and urine-soaked cage during a five-day extradition from Florida to Maine, her lawsuit against a Florida company, U.S. Prisoner Transport, has been settled. Details of the settlement are confidential. Quinn, 36, said Thursday she was required to sign a disclosure […]
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Sabattus woman files federal lawsuit for mistreatment in prisoner transport van
PORTLAND — A Sabattus woman filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday, claiming she was forced in November 2016 to kneel in a cage — covered in her own urine, blood and vomit — during her five-day extradition from Florida to Maine. Meghan Quinn, 35, filed a 16-page complaint at U.S. District Court against U.S. Prisoner Transport of Florida; its parent company, Prisoner […]
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Sun Journal wins Outstanding Journalism award
NATICK, Mass. — The New England Newspaper & Press Association awarded the Sun Journal a Publick Occurrences Award for Outstanding Journalism on Thursday during the association’s annual conference. The newspaper was also named a distinguished newspaper in the daily category. The Publick Occurrences Award, named for the first newspaper in America that published a single […]
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Former prisoner puts transport company on notice for lawsuit
LEWISTON — An attorney for a woman who said she was mistreated during her extradition from Florida to Maine in November filed a notice of claim that she intends to sue. Nicholas Worden said Meghan Quinn expects to pursue a claim in federal court related to her five-day journey caged in the back of a […]
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Basic civil rights, even for prisoners
District attorneys representing five Maine counties decided, after becoming aware of allegations of prisoner mistreatment by Prisoner Transport Services, to stop contracting with the for-profit Tennessee-based company. Good. Maine taxpayers must not be party to known civil rights violations, financially or otherwise, particularly when public agencies have long proven prisoners can be securely, safely and […]
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Allegations spur district attorney to halt private prisoner transports
District Attorney Andrew Robinson referred to a six-page letter written by an Androscoggin County Jail inmate who detailed the account of her five-day trip from Florida to Maine last November caged in the back of a private prisoner transport van during which she was denied bathroom breaks and subjected to other inhumane treatment.
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Caged in van No. 1304
Lewiston woman’s 5-day trip from Florida to Maine in a prisoner transport van was an ‘inhumane . . . hell.’