Add to ORKGMaine prison officials estimate that 20 percent of the 600 inmates at the three prisons in Thomaston and Warren suffer from mental illness, and ten percent of the 500 inmates at the Maine Correctional Center in Windham are mentally ill or mildly retarded. The downsizing of state mental hosptials is part of the problem for the increase in mentally ill prisoners over the past two decades, and difficult financial times make it hard to give those prisoners the treatment they need. Details
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The Maine State Prison in Thomaston houses 410 men, all but 17 of them white, none of them with a ch...
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he rapidly escalating rate of incarceration in the United States has been associated with an increas...
This Just In piece on potentially dangerous delays for state prison inmates waiting to be evaluated...
Background: The United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world which has created a pu...
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lnmates with psychiatric disorders are a growing and difficult to manage popu-lation in federal and ...
North by East piece on Maine\u27s rank as having the lowest per capita prison population in the cou...
America’s correctional system is continuously presented with issues that require attention and immed...
Beginning with the premise that both the number and percentage of mentally ill inmates as sharply ri...
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Sixty percent of the 1,019 people who spent at least one night at Portland\u27s Oxford Street Shelte...
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