Fostering peace and well-being in prisons. That's the goal of the Peaceful Prisons Project, which is bringing pickleball to the Maine State Prison. Starting Monday, the organization has Olympic ...

Wayne Foss was found dead in his burned home in Whitneyville. Six years later, three people were charged in connection to his ...

In addition to Maine, California, New York, Minnesota, New Jersey and Washington state allow transgender people to be housed in jail and prison facilities that align with their gender identity.

(CNN)-- A hostage situation at Maine State Prison ended Monday night with an inmate freeing his two hostages, authorities said. The ordeal began about 2:30 p.m. Monday when inmate Michael Chasse ...

The state had to shift the manufacturing of the new plates away from the Maine State Prison, where plates are usually made, in order to make the number of plates needed on a shortened timeline ...

If approved, the office would be an independent watchdog agency and work with state departments overseeing health and human services, education, law enforcement police and corrections.

I’d been filming for four months in the punishment wing of the Maine State Prison when I asked an officer to lock me in a solitary confinement cell. I wanted to know what it was like to be shut ...