Maine State Prison News

Three escapes in less than three weeks have led the Maine Department of Corrections to launch a review of staffing at the Bolduc Minimum Security Facility in Warren.

A pickup truck was stolen Saturday night in Cushing about three miles from where two state prisoners walked away from the Maine State Prison's Bolduc Correctional Facility on Cushing Road in Warren.

Winning the prize for Weirdest Front Page Story of the Week is the Tuesday Washington Post story on the NAACP spreading out to all colors a ' in the Maine State Prison .

A convicted killer made his appeal to the Maine Supreme Judicial Court Monday. Last year, John Okie, 23, was found guilty of killing his ex-girlfriend, Aleigh Mills and his father, John S. Okie in 2007.

The Maine Department of Corrections has fired one prison guard and demoted another after an internal investigation into the April homicide of inmate Sheldon Weinstein.

WARREN : Law enforcement officials Saturday night are searching for two men who reportedly escaped from the Maine State Prison's Bolduc Correctional Facility on Cushing Road in Warren.

Aiming to expand his membership, national president explains, 'Colored people come in all colors' PHOTOS William "Billy" Flynn, right, and Joseph "JJ" Jackson are president and vice president, respectively, of Maine State Prison chapter of the NAACP.

WARREN : One prison guard was fired and a supervisor was demoted as a result of an internal investigation at the Maine State Prison following the death of an inmate earlier this year.

This story was written by Krissah Thompson . Benjamin Todd Jealous pulls in front of the prison compound, passes through the only unlocked door in the building and surrenders his BlackBerry and driver's license to guards.

THOMASTON : Crews from Jake Barbour Inc. of Rockland are completing work on the park, trails and landscaping for the Thomaston Green at the former Maine State Prison site.

WALDOBORO : A coastal Maine evangelistic gospel concert will be held Saturday, Nov.

Maine drug agents say they've charged a work-release inmate with drug trafficking for allegedly buying illegal drugs while on work release and smuggling them back into the Maine State Prison.

Maine prison activists said Wednesday that they hope the change of command at the Maine State Prison will lead to positive reform for both staff and inmates at the facility.

Patricia M. Barnhart, acting warden of the Thumb Correctional Facility, Michigan Department of Corrections, has been named the next Warden of the Maine State Prison.

Thank you for the timely interview with Harvey Silverglate . He mentions that the orgy of questionable indictments started in the '80s. Funny, I'm just reading In the Spirit of Crazy Horse , by Peter Mathiessen ? it details rampant witness tampering and prosecutorial incompetence leading up to the conviction of Leonard Peltier for the murder of two ...

The NAACP is registering voters at prisons in Maine, one of just two states that allow all inmates to vote while behind bars, in what is apparently the nation's first such statewide drive.

In most states, someone convicted of a crime - rape, murder, theft or drunk driving among them - forfeits their right to vote.

F. Lee Bailey spoke to members of the Farmington Rotary Club Thursday morning.A FARMINGTON a ' When nationally known trial attorney F. Lee Bailey spoke to the local Rotary Club on Thursday, the packed house included local attorneys, probation officials, Maine Attorney General Janet Mills, John Nale, chairman of the Maine State Prison Advisory ...

NAACP's president returns to Maine for voter drive in prisons BY TREVOR MAXWELL Kennebec Journal & Morning Sentinel 09/30/2009 Less than a year after he came to Maine to lobby for prison reform and ensure that inmates have an opportunity to vote, the president of the NAACP led a voter registration drive on Tuesday at five of the state's seven ...

NAACP Director and CEO Ben Jealous was in Maine to lead a voter registration drive at the Maine State Prison.