A Maine corrections official steered prison purchases to specific vendors in exchange for kickbacks in a long-running scheme, according to law enforcement officials. Gerald E. Merrill, deputy ...

A playing card deck featuring 52 of Maine's unsolved homicides and suspicious missing persons cases will be distributed to ...

The state is paying $395,000 to a former corrections officer to settle her claims of harassment and discrimination. Autumn Dinsmore resigned as a corrections officer this month as part of the ...

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AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — A second arrest has been made in the investigation into a Maine corrections official accused of steering purchases to certain vendors in exchange for kickbacks in a long-running ...

When I first came to Maine, legislators were making repeated attempts to re-establish a parole system for prison inmates. The theory behind parole is that those convicted of crimes are individuals; ...

BANGOR, Maine (WABI) - The deputy superintendent of the Mountain View Correctional Facility in Charleston and the Downeast Correctional Facility in Machiasport was arrested Tuesday. Gerald Merrill, Jr ...