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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County prosecutors ditch effort to hire transport officer
LEWISTON — Androscoggin County’s district attorney said a recent effort by the state’s county prosecutors to pool their resources and hire a single full-time extraditions officer to fetch prisoners held on warrants from distant states appears to be “not feasible.” In response to a Sun Journal investigation in March that found a private prisoner transport […]
DAs may pool resources for prisoner transports
LEWISTON — The state’s district attorneys agreed Friday to explore using a state law enforcement agency to conduct the extraditions of prisoners back to Maine. The move comes just a few weeks after the state’s prosecutors halted their use of a private prisoner transport company following allegations of neglect and mistreatment that were featured in […]
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 […]
Horrified by prisoners’ treatment
I was amazed by the dramatic and well-written story about the transport of prisoners from Florida to Maine (Sun Journal, March 26). That incredible story seems to reveal a series of crimes. Considering the persons involved in performing that prisoner transport and their reluctance to talk, the Sun Journal should be congratulated. I came from […]