Department of Corrections

Some lawmakers, activists and criminal justice experts have been clamoring for years to close Long Creek Youth Development Center in South Portland.

A top official at two Maine prisons has been arrested as part of what prosecutors allege was an illegal kickback scheme.

Maine's deputy corrections commissioner has accepted a job as director of the Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry.

The deepening staffing crisis at Maine’s only youth prison has grown so dire that teens are routinely locked in their cells during the day because there aren’t enough workers to supervise them, according to labor and watchdog groups.

Last week, with little fanfare, a historic, livestreamed debate took place between a team of students from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a team of residents from the Maine Department of Corrections.

Maine lawmakers are considering reestablishing parole 45 years after it was abolished as truth-in-sentencing laws swept the country. The laws were intended to reassure the public that violent offenders would remain behind bars. But times have changed. Maine is now the only state in New England without parole.

The Maine Department of Corrections announced Friday that it is expanding medication-assisted treatment for residents of state correctional facilities who…

The Maine Department of Corrections (MDOC) plans to ease restrictions on prisoner visitation beginning in July.The Department says that after consultation…

The Maine Department of Corrections is confirming that two more prisoners have tested positive for COVID-19 at the Maine Correctional Center in Windham,…