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Maine Department of Corrections

This week’s pick of news and commentary about solitary confinement: A lengthy feature in the New York Times explores how prisons and jails across the United States have become the nation’s largest providers of inpatient mental health treatment. It’s estimated that 200,000 to 300,000 currently incarcerated people have a serious mental illness, which is ten […]

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The Deadly Consequences of Mental Illness in Prison…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

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by Sara Vogel

May 8, 2024

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by Valerie Kiebala

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by Valerie Kiebala

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by Valerie Kiebala

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News & Features

Maine Cuts Supermax Population, Reforms Solitary Confinement Practices

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by James Ridgeway and Jean Casella

June 2, 2011

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