Jim Mackie, Maine representative for AFSCME Council 93, the union that covers more than 600 workers in the state Department of Corrections, said he hopes universal testing can happen in Maine’s ...

Nine staff and 72 inmates at the Windham prison have tested positive.

Officials tell lawmakers that a growing number of dangerous prisoners are being housed in the facilty and they pose a higher escape risk.

Maine State Prison officials sent him there soon after he was charged with murder. Riverview was more focused on rehabilitation than punishment, unlike the jails and prisons Loisel had come to ...

Maine State Prison offers education to inmates in the name of public safety At the maximum-security facility in Warren, 685 men are currently incarcerated; 40 of them were enrolled this winter and ...

Maine’s State Department of Corrections, the state entity which maintains and operates Maine’s prison and jail systems, states that its mission is to make our communities safer by reducing ...

A reentry facility for incarcerated women in Maine could be a model for replacing the troubled Chittenden Regional Correctional Facility in South Burlington, officials told state legislators Tuesday.

There are two ways into the Maine State Prison, a maximum security facility in the tiny town of Warren. After passing a background check and getting the go-ahead from the prison commissioner, I go ...

WARREN — Last spring, Maine Corrections Commissioner Joseph Ponte said that during a cabinet meeting Gov. Paul LePage leaned over and said to him that more beds for the seriously mentally ill ...