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A day spent with 10 inmates from the Maine State Prison.

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Maine Voices; Maine, too, is guilty of overusing prisons as punishment

As people across the nation tuned in to the speech by Attorney General Eric Holder last week, it may have been easy for Mainers to tune out. After all, Mr. Holder’s topic was the bloated federal prison system, but here in Maine we have the lowest incarceration rate in the country. Unfortunately, that’s not saying much. America has more people in prison per capita than anywhere else in the world. And even in Maine, we incarcerate people at a higher rate than most European countries.

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New Maine State Prison warden named
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New Maine State Prison warden named

WARREN, Maine — Rodney Bouffard, who has served as acting warden at the Maine State Prison for the past several months, was named warden Friday.

The Maine Department of Corrections announced the appointment in a news release Wednesday.

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Gay former prison guard files discrimination lawsuit against state
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Gay former prison guard files discrimination lawsuit against state

MACHIAS, Maine — A gay former prison guard has filed a civil rights discrimination suit against the Maine Department of Corrections after she was fired from her position at Downeast Correctional Facility in Machiasport, where both she and her attorney say “an old boy culture of disrespect for women” is entrenched.

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Our View: Prison leak probe looks for the wrong problem

If Maine corrections officials are embarrassed, they have good reason. An in-house video that showed a supervisor at the Windham prison inappropriately using pepper spray on a restrained inmate leaving him in distress for 20 minutes was shocking when it was revealed in a story in the Maine Sunday Telegram.

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