The former guard was charged with assault last year after allegedly putting a teenager in a headlock and lifting him off the ...

Maine abolished parole in 1976, becoming the first state to do so. Sixteen others followed. As a result, average prison ...

Maine is the only state in the Northeast and one of only 16 states nationwide to have abolished or severely restricted parole ...

Legislators are weighing the merits, finances, and feasibility of bringing back parole after it was eliminated across the ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. Visiting Maine’s prisons has been an eye opening experience for me, ...

At the Southern Maine Women's Reentry Center, inmates gain business skills to rebuild lives post-incarceration, offering hope ...

Apr. 8—The U.S. attorney general announced on national TV Tuesday morning that she is withholding money to Maine prisons after learning about a female transgender prisoner living in a unit with other ...

The Trump administration is pulling funding from the Maine Department of Corrections over a transgender woman who is being housed in a women’s prison, U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi said in an ...