By Lauren McCauley | Editor
“It flat out just denies incarcerated people their due process rights.” - Foster Bates, president of the Maine State Prison branch of the NAACP, on the Department of Corrections’ discipline policy.
A provision in the proposed Maine Department of Corrections disciplinary policy overlaid on a photo taken outside Maine State Prison. (Photo by Evan Popp/ Maine Morning Star)
JUSTICE
By Emma Davis
Incarcerated Mainers are pushing back against a longstanding loophole in the Department of Corrections disciplinary policy that allows staff to issue punishments before and regardless of a finding of guilt.
LABOR + ECONOMY
By Eesha Pendharkar
A direct cash assistance program for low-income single mothers is expanding to include dozens more families after receiving an anonymous $1.47 million donation.
COMMENTARY
By Ivan Herrera
Maine voters didn’t just cap super PAC contributions in 2024, they did it by a landslide. Three out of four said yes to Question 1, a citizen’s initiative that limited campaign contributions to political action committees that make uncoordinated expenditures in support of a candidate to $5,000.
But right now, in the middle of the state’s consequential governor’s race, that cap does not exist.
IN CASE YOU MISSED IT
In Hampton, a race to insulate vulnerable neighborhoods against sea-level rise | Molly Rains, New Hampshire Bulletin
Appeals court upholds ban on immigration enforcement at some churches | William J. Ford, Maryland Matters
Federal judge halts proposed HHS changes to teen pregnancy prevention program | Kelcie Moseley-Morris, Stateline
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