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No Discipline for 10 Maine Guards Who Mocked and Harassed Prisoners
Loaded on March 8, 2023
by Jo Ellen Nott
by Jo Ellen Nott
From 2019 to 2021, guards at Maine State Prison in Warren used a Facebook Messenger group chat to mock prisoners, joke about using force on them and sharing confidential information about them. Yet the none was fired by the state Department of Corrections (DOC), …
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