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Those restraints, known as prone restraints, are considered dangerous and have previously been flagged by the Center for Children's Law and Policy in 2017 as inappropriate given the significant trauma health histories and mental health needs of youth at Long Creek. ....
Maine governor vetoes bill to close juvenile detention center newscentermaine.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from newscentermaine.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Maine Public File Some lawmakers, advocates and former residents of the Long Creek Youth Development Center are urging members of the Legislature’s Criminal Justice Committee to support legislation that would close the facility within the next two years. Long Creek, the state’s youth correctional facility, has a budget of over $18 million a year to house about 28 individuals. That works out to about $700,000 a year per resident. Democratic state Rep. Grayson Lookner of Portland, who sponsored the bill, says there are better ways to use that money to treat young offenders. “That amount of spending has not mitigated or reduced the fact that Long Creek has been a place of violence and trauma for young people too long,” he says. ....
Lawmakers to decide if time has come for universal background checks The bill would require background checks for individual sales to strangers, as well as sales made at local gun shows. Author: Don Carrigan Updated: 8:29 PM EDT May 3, 2021 AUGUSTA, Maine Maine lawmakers are once again being asked to expand background checks and take other gun control measures, in response to multiple mass shootings across the country over the past month. On Monday, they also heard arguments about banning bump stocks by defining them as machine guns, but background checks are the most prominent part of the debate, as they have been in previous years. ....
Changes coming to Maine s juvenile justice system Rep. Charlotte Warren of the Criminal Justice Committee says she feels that the facility is costing Mainers too much money. Author: Don Carrigan Updated: 9:34 PM EST March 2, 2021 AUGUSTA, Maine Maine’s Corrections Commissioner Randy Liberty is working to stop doing what many Mainers seem to think should not be done anymore: locking up young people who commit serious crimes. Liberty is leading the department’s effort to further reduce the number of juveniles being held at the Long Creek Youth Development Center, the state’s prison facility for those under 18. They have clearly been making progress the facility, designed to hold 250 people, was holding just 27 as of Monday. ....