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Prison Reforms Under Maine’s New DOC Commissioner

Loaded on March 15, 2013 by Lance Tapley published in Prison Legal News March, 2013, page 28
Filed under: Private Contractors, Rehabilitation/Recidivism, Probation, Mental Health, Juvenile Prisons. Location: Maine.
Several weeks after firing Maine State Prison warden Patricia Barnhart on January 10, 2013, and two years after taking over the Department of Corrections (DOC), Commissioner Joseph Ponte appears determined to continue – and ramp up – his forceful program of reform.

In an interview at the DOC’s Augusta headquarters, ...

 

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