This Just In piece questioning if the Maine Department of Corrections violated the First Amendment\u27s free-speech guarantee in its actions against inmate and human-rights activist Deane Brown. Brown had been denied contact with the news media at the Maine State Prison\u27s Supermax, and was later transferred to Maryland. A suit has been filed against Corrections officials in Maine federal court on Brown\u27s behalf by civil-rights attorney Lynne Williams. Williams says the suit\u27s success could impact Maine correctional policies on access to the press, prisoner treatment, and transfers
This Just In piece on the state\u27s Freedom of Access Act, with a focus on an upcoming appeal to t...
Maine Attorney General Michael Carpenter said that no guard or official will face criminal charges i...
Following two lawsuits and confronted with a wealth of information alleging rampant sexual abuse of ...
This Just In piece reporting that Lynne Williams, attorney for prison-abuse whistleblower Deane Bro...
The Maine Department of Corrections is violating at least two of three 35-year-old federal court ord...
After negative publicity and protests from journalists\u27 organizations, Governor John Baldacci on ...
This Just In piece reporting that Governor John Baldacci\u27s administration on November 13 sent th...
This Just In piece reporting that a Maryland court has ordered Maine prisoner Deane Brown to be for...
Michael Tuck, 31, an inmate at the Maine Correctional Center in Winhdam, last month filed suit in U....
Article on the Maine State Prison in Warren, with a focus on the refusal of prison officials to answ...
This Just In piece on Deane Brown and Smokey Heath, both former prisoners at the Maine State Prison...
In 2012, a Massachusetts district court judge issued a controversial decision in Kosilek v. Spencer ...
News & Issues piece on inmates at Maine correctional facilities who are allegedly being denied need...
Lengthy, detailed article following up on allegations of abuse of inmates at the Supermax, a 100-b...
The Maine Supreme Judicial Court has ruled that a judge may suggest but not mandate how the Departme...
This Just In piece on the state\u27s Freedom of Access Act, with a focus on an upcoming appeal to t...
Maine Attorney General Michael Carpenter said that no guard or official will face criminal charges i...
Following two lawsuits and confronted with a wealth of information alleging rampant sexual abuse of ...
This Just In piece reporting that Lynne Williams, attorney for prison-abuse whistleblower Deane Bro...
The Maine Department of Corrections is violating at least two of three 35-year-old federal court ord...
After negative publicity and protests from journalists\u27 organizations, Governor John Baldacci on ...
This Just In piece reporting that Governor John Baldacci\u27s administration on November 13 sent th...
This Just In piece reporting that a Maryland court has ordered Maine prisoner Deane Brown to be for...
Michael Tuck, 31, an inmate at the Maine Correctional Center in Winhdam, last month filed suit in U....
Article on the Maine State Prison in Warren, with a focus on the refusal of prison officials to answ...
This Just In piece on Deane Brown and Smokey Heath, both former prisoners at the Maine State Prison...
In 2012, a Massachusetts district court judge issued a controversial decision in Kosilek v. Spencer ...
News & Issues piece on inmates at Maine correctional facilities who are allegedly being denied need...
Lengthy, detailed article following up on allegations of abuse of inmates at the Supermax, a 100-b...
The Maine Supreme Judicial Court has ruled that a judge may suggest but not mandate how the Departme...
This Just In piece on the state\u27s Freedom of Access Act, with a focus on an upcoming appeal to t...
Maine Attorney General Michael Carpenter said that no guard or official will face criminal charges i...
Following two lawsuits and confronted with a wealth of information alleging rampant sexual abuse of ...