Frankie Bachelder first entered Long Creek Youth Development Center when he was 14 years old, and lived inside the juvenile ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

For nearly 20 years, incarcerated individuals in Maine have been taking college classes for credit. Hundreds have graduated with associate, baccalaureate and even advanced degrees. It all started with ...

It shouldn’t take suing departments of corrections or capturing atrocities on illegal cellphones to see what happens behind prison walls ...