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Published
February 2, 2020

Our View: Maine should stop using youth prison for ‘care’

It's time for lawmakers to respond to wasteful and ineffective spending on youth incarceration.
Published
January 28, 2020

National group advises Maine to invest in community services to reduce juvenile incarcerations

Preliminary findings by the Center for Children's Law and Policy show that 53% of detained youths were held because the state lacked alternative places to house them safely.
Published
December 15, 2019

Maine Voices: Spend juvenile-justice money on Maine’s youth, not prisons

Young people who have been in Long Creek urge the state to invest in things like housing, education and after-school programs.
Published
August 3, 2019

Commissioner Liberty: Editorial casts Maine’s correctional system in unduly bleak light

The rehabilitation of our friends, family and neighbors drives the system and Maine's Department of Corrections.
Published
August 1, 2019

Maine Voices: Hard work of dedicated Long Creek staff unfairly overlooked

The Press Herald Editorial Board keeps taking swipes at people who help youths with no other place to go.

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Published
July 19, 2019

D.C.-based policy group hired to help reform Maine’s juvenile justice system

The Maine Juvenile Justice Advisory Group has hired the Center for Children's Law and Policy to evaluate Maine's system and recommend changes.
Published
July 17, 2019

Teenager charged in Lewiston man’s death now accused of assault at Long Creek

Emmanuel Nkurunziza is charged with assault after a fight that his lawyer describes as ‘a racially-charged incident.’
Published
June 17, 2019

State pays $500,000 to settle lawsuit alleging abuse at juvenile facility

Matthew Keene of Standish was held at the Maine Youth Center, now called Long Creek Youth Development Center, from 1995 to 1999.
Published
June 11, 2019

Judge denies mentally incompetent boy’s request for release from Long Creek

The 13-year-old is still detained because he has not been able to get into a residential treatment program.
Published
June 6, 2019

Supreme court justice considers request to release 13-year-old from Long Creek

An attorney is fighting to get the boy out of the Long Creek Youth Development Center, but the state argues that he can be detained while officials search for the right placement for his mental health needs.