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Little State, Big Problems: Maine’s Prison Crisis Continues Unabated
Loaded on Oct. 15, 2007
by Lance Tapley
published in Prison Legal News
October, 2007, page 1
Little State, Big Problems: Maine?s Prison Crisis Continues Unabated
Filed under:
Out of State Transfers,
Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic,
Misconduct/Corruption,
Guard Misconduct,
DOC/BOP misconduct,
Retaliation for Media Contact,
Retaliatory Transfers,
Hunger Strikes,
Criminal Prosecution,
Crime,
Failure to Treat (Mental Illness),
Suicides,
Access to Media,
State Legislation.
Locations:
Maryland,
Maine.
by Lance Tapley
Only big prison systems mistreat prisoners, right?
Only prison systems where racism, right-wing tough-on-crime attitudes, or prison-industrial-complex power have full reign, like in California or Texas, are failures, right?
Only prisons where gang-oriented, city-bred prisoners are divided by ...
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- Old Media Access Consent Decrees Violated in Maine, by Lance Tapley
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- From the Editor, by Paul Wright
- Clarification:
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- Florida Supreme Court Enacts Rules Regulating “Super Sealing” of Court Records, by David Reutter
- Final Report on Ohio Prisoner Reentry Study, by G.A. Bowers
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- Psych Evaluations Questioned Following D.C. Jail Suicides, by Matthew Clarke
- NY Prisoner Who Crushed Thumb Working at Ski Resort Awarded $40,000
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