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The Maine House gave initial approval on Tuesday to a bill dealing with "solitary confinement" in Maine prisons. But as Tuesday’s debate highlighted, lawmakers can't agree on terminology, never mind whether solitary confinement is still in used in Maine.
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The bill appoints an independent ombudsman to oversee residents who are in segregation. It also spells out that anyone who is pregnant, who has a disability or who is less than 21 or who is 65 or older cannot be placed in segregation. And for other residents the duration of segregation would be limited to three days in succession and no more than nine days in a two-month period.
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At a public hearing on the bill Monday, supporters said that while the Maine Department of Corrections has reduced the number of residents in isolation in recent years, the practice needs to end.
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A Maine State Prison inmate whose due process rights were violated when he spent 22 months in solitary confinement is not entitled to injunctive relief or…
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An unusual civil trial is underway this week in Kennebec County Superior Court, in a case brought by a Maine State prison inmate against the Department of…
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A Maine Superior Court judge has taken the unusual step of finding that a prisoner’s lengthy stay in solitary confinement amounted to “an atypical and…
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Around the country and the world there’s a growing movement calling for the end to solitary confinement, also known as administrative segregation,…