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LANCE TAPLEY

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Prisoner gagged

First Amendment watch
I had not interviewed a prisoner for six months, since the Maine Department of Corrections wanted to impose unconstitutional restrictions.
By LANCE TAPLEY  |  May 02, 2007

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Prisoners as commodities

Critics slam Governor Baldacci’s plan to ship Maine inmates out of state to a for-profit company
If Baldacci goes around the Legislature with an emergency order, a big division could open between the governor and the Legislature.
By LANCE TAPLEY  |  April 25, 2007

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Right-wing think tank makes argument for socialism

Confusion
The conservative Portland-based Maine Heritage Policy Center wonks try so hard to revile everything public and praise everything private that they risk tripping over their floppy bow ties.
By LANCE TAPLEY  |  April 25, 2007

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Punish the mentally ill!

In the lobby
Officials in Maine attorney general Steven Rowe’s office recently made a legislative effort regarding mentally ill prisoners in a controversial way.
By LANCE TAPLEY  |  April 11, 2007

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Prison madness explained

Big picture
More than 2 million people are imprisoned in the United States, the largest number of any country, including China.
By LANCE TAPLEY  |  March 28, 2007

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Prison guards suit up

Battle ready
Maine State Prison warden Jeffrey Merrill has decided to replace the prison’s traditional uniform for correctional officers.
By LANCE TAPLEY  |  March 14, 2007

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Ethics update

Long state-agency hangover from that $295 bottle of wine
Fewer than half of 126 quasi-governmental state agencies say they have ethics rules.
By LANCE TAPLEY  |  February 28, 2007

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An insult to justice

Truth to power
Portland Phoenix freelancer Lance Tapley was given the Maine State Bar Association's Excellence in Legal Journalism Award last week at the association's annual meeting.
By LANCE TAPLEY  |  January 31, 2007

Cracks in the armor

Prison employee may be disciplined in suicide case; interview policy to be rewritten
A couple of cracks have opened in the state’s armor of prison secrecy.
By LANCE TAPLEY  |  January 31, 2007

Tabor won

The liberals embrace defeat (a/k/a Baldacci)
If you had joined Maine’s leading liberals in kicking off the legislative session at their annual public-policy gab-fest in early January, you would have been excused for thinking the conservatives were actually the hosts.
By LANCE TAPLEY  |  January 17, 2007

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Deane Brown defense team enlarging

Prison reform
A lawyer for prison-abuse whistleblower Deane Brown has announced plans to train a research team to aid in a planned federal civil-rights suit to force the state to bring Brown back to Maine from a Maryland prison and collect monetary compensation for the harsh treatment he says he suffered in the Maine State Prison’s Supermax — officially, its Special Management Unit.
By LANCE TAPLEY  |  January 10, 2007

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Sluggish response to suicide

Supermax watch
An eyewitness to the suicide of Ryan Rideout, a 25-year-old, severely mentally ill Augusta man who hanged himself with his bedding in his Maine State Prison Supermax cell on October 5, calls into question the official version of events.
By LANCE TAPLEY  |  January 03, 2007

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Lockdown

What do prison officials have to hide?
If you were a reporter and you received a letter like the one excerpted below, what would you make of it? Lance Tapley discusses reporting the prisons  
By LANCE TAPLEY  |  December 14, 2006

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Baldacci’s ‘political prisoner’

A life at risk
John Baldacci’s administration on November 13 sent the Maine State Prison’s chief human-rights advocate, inmate Deane Brown, to a dangerous prison more than 500 miles away, in Baltimore. Brown’s lawyer and his best friend believe this decision was in retaliation for his activism, and puts his life in danger.
By LANCE TAPLEY  |  November 21, 2006

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Feds raid People’s Free Space

Big Brother
If you’d like to enliven your dull party, federal agents appear to be eager to conduct raids or searches, especially if the location is a known hangout for people of the left-wing, pacifist, resource-sharing persuasion.
By LANCE TAPLEY  |  November 15, 2006

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Political theater of the absurd

Governmental ethics
It was right out of the theater of the absurd or George Orwell: if certain people say something is true, then it must be true.
By LANCE TAPLEY  |  November 01, 2006

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Forgotten in the campaign

The would-be governors on serving Maine’s most vulnerable people
The big gubernatorial-campaign issues are taxes, jobs and economic development, and health care affordability. Read the chart (PDF)
By LANCE TAPLEY  |  November 01, 2006

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Roll your own

Under Maine’s campaign-finance system, Clean Election candidates get screwed
The state’s Clean Election system is even grubbier than you thought.
By LANCE TAPLEY  |  October 25, 2006

Hunger strike at Maine's Supermax Prison

Suicide attempts reported
Inmates at the Maine State Prison’s solitary-confinement Supermax unit in Warren have been on a hunger strike since Saturday night. Death in the Supermax. By Lance Tapley
By LANCE TAPLEY  |  October 18, 2006

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Death in the Supermax

Prisons
A 25-year-old inmate killed himself in the state’s Supermax prison on October 5, corrections officers say. But while a Rockland newspaper quoted the prison warden as saying the inmate was not considered a suicide risk, Ryan Rideout had a long history of mental illness and suicidal behavior.
By LANCE TAPLEY  |  October 11, 2006
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