However, guards and prisoner advocates say the officials’ claims aren’t true, that changes have made the prisons less safe.

Phillip Gage is one of four people facing sentencing for robberies at four banks in Maine and New Hampshire.

Jay Mercier is serving 70 years after being found guilty in 2012 for killing 20-year-old Rita St. Peter in Anson.

Justices discount a loaded-on-drugs claim and deny Joel Hayden’s appeal in the shootings of his friend and the mother of his four children, one of whom witnessed the killings.

A day after saying state officials knew lobsters near the mouth of the Penobscot River contained unsafe levels of the toxin, researchers say the officials had older information that did not warrant issuing consumer alerts in 2010.