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Maine lawmakers consider making jail phone calls to lawyers free

Por: Portland Press Herald Nation March 06, 2023

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Lawmakers are weighing bills to require jails to make phone calls to lawyers free and to explicitly protect phone calls through attorney-client privilege. Photo by Fred J. Field/The Maine Monitor Maine lawmakers are considering changes aimed at better protecting prisoners’ rights to private attorney-client communications in jails and prisons – including one proposal that would eliminate charges for phone calls that jailed defendants make to... + full article



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