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The Most Beautiful Cornhole Set in America Was Made in Maine’s Maximum Security Prison
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Inmate dies at Bolduc Correctional Facility in Warren
Portland Press Herald, Maine via Yahoo News· 2 years agoAug. 3—An inmate at the Bolduc Correctional Facility in Warren died Monday, the Maine Department of Corrections reported. Christopher Wilson, 49, of Troy, New York, died Monday afternoon, according ...
Federal judge approves plan to reimburse Maine inmates who lost unemployment benefits
Portland Press Herald, Maine via Yahoo News· 2 years agoAug. 25—A federal judge approved a $368,000 settlement agreement between the state and more than 50 people who lost coronavirus-related unemployment benefits when they were incarcerated in Maine ...
'Cold-blooded and atrocious' murder in Poland transfixed community
Sun Journal, Lewiston, Maine via Yahoo News· 1 year agoNov. 20—In July 1900, an old man with a trembling hand carefully wrote to a friend from the state prison in Thomaston where he had lived for nearly 43 years. "My health is fair so I work four ...
Chapter 25: Lizzie alive out west somewhere?
Sun Journal, Lewiston, Maine via Yahoo News· 1 year agoNov. 6—The notion that Mary Elizabeth "Lizzie" Lowell might still be alive led to a number of supposed sightings over the years. For instance, the Portland Daily Press reported May 17, 1879, ...
Chapter 23: Death warrant signed by governor
Sun Journal, Lewiston, Maine via Yahoo News· 2 years agoOct. 23—On June 8, 1875, Gov. Nelson Dingley Jr. of Lewiston and his Executive Council gathered for their monthly meeting, taking no action on requests for leniency for convicted killers Louis ...
Chapter 28: Lowell returns to Lewiston
Sun Journal, Lewiston, Maine via Yahoo News· 1 year agoNov. 27—The 12:07 p.m. train from Rockland pulled into the depot in Lewiston on a Thursday, a week before Thanksgiving in 1899, and a middle-aged man with a big mustache stepped carefully onto ...