Raheem Goodwin, who pleaded guilty on Friday, will serve 29 years in prison for the 2023 murder of Edwin Weeks in Fairfield.
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Oakland man to serve 8 years in prison on child sex assault charges
Steven J. Corbin was sentenced after reaching a plea deal just before his trial on multiple child sexual abuse charges.
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Owners of Maine’s ‘last resort’ psychiatric hospital in South Carolina declare bankruptcy
Maine has signed another $1.4 million contract with Columbia Regional Care Center to reserve six beds. But the facility will soon be sold at auction after its parent company declared bankruptcy.
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New York man convicted in 2015 felony murder of Augusta man takes his third appeal to Maine’s highest court
Aubrey Armstrong was convicted of felony murder in the 2015 beating death of Joseph Marceau in Augusta.
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Former Waterville man serving sentence for 1996 murder dies at Maine State Prison
Stephen Lee, who was serving a 40-year sentence for murder as well as robbery and burglary, was an inmate with an earliest possible release date in 2032.
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A judge committed these Maine patients to a hospital. Some say they’re being sent to prison.
Maine has been quietly sending people found not criminally responsible for their crimes to a controversial, for-profit facility in South Carolina where they say they are not getting mental health treatment.
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York County Jail administrator will take over as new warden of Maine State Prison
Nathan Thayer has served as administrator at the York County Jail for the last three years and will start in his new role at Maine’s largest prison on Monday.
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Buckfield stabbing victim and suspect knew each other from prison, police say
The motive in the case remains unclear, according to court documents.
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Maine wants to keep housing some criminal defendants with mental illness in prison
Maine State Prison is better equipped than psychiatric hospitals to help certain defendants who have been ruled incompetent to stand trial, the Department of Corrections and DHHS say.
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64-year-old Fairfield man convicted of murdering ex-wife dies at Maine State Prison
Gregory Warmke of Fairfield had been incarcerated since 2004.