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Commentary: Maine correctional system buckling under weight of staffing shortage

Por: Portland Press Herald Opinion September 25, 2022

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A crisis now looming in the Maine Department of Corrections warrants the attention not only of our state Legislature, but of Maine’s attorney general as well. President Woodrow Wilson once said: “Democracy was not so much a form of government as a set of principles.” ABOUT THE AUTHOR Jeffrey Libby is at the Bolduc Correctional Facility in Warren who has previously written about , prison and . As an accomplished op-ed writer on prison... + full article



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