The Maine Department of Corrections says multiple agencies, including the U.S. Marshals, are assisting in the search for two 17-year-olds and a 14-year-old who escaped from the Long Creek Youth ...

Maine is the only state in the Northeast and one of only 16 states nationwide to have abolished or severely restricted parole ...

During a legislative committee meeting, a Department of Corrections administrator explained aspects of the juvenile detention facility are intentionally more lax than a prison, which she said creates ...

CHARLESTON, Maine (WABI) - An inmate who was serving time at Mountain View Correctional Facility has died. The Maine Department of Corrections said Saturday, Jon Brown, 67, died Friday night. While a ...

For nearly 20 years, incarcerated individuals in Maine have been taking college classes for credit. Hundreds have graduated with associate, baccalaureate and even advanced degrees. It all started with ...

The Piscataquis County Jail removed a third of its inmates after learning it failed a state inspection, and the Maine Department of Corrections restricted the jail's operations. Following a routine ...

BOWDOIN, Maine (WABI) - A man who confessed to killing his parents and two of their friends in Bowdoin and wounding three people in a highway shooting in Yarmouth in 2023 has died. The Maine ...