Legislators gutted a bill originally aimed at limiting some use-of-force techniques at the youth prison, and now seek a timeline to close the facility entirely.
MIT’s Educational Justice Institute hopes its pilot program, which brought a web design class to incarcerated women in Maine, can be replicated elsewhere.
Lynne Allen comes to Maine from the Massachusetts Department of Youth Services. She succeeds Caroline Raymond, who resigned in September after a series of violent incidents at the South Portland facility.