Issue Reports

Filter Publications

Improving Court Appearance Rates in Maine: A Proposal for a Court Notification System in Maine State Courts

Maine should adopt a court date notification system, which would reduce Failure to Appear rates in Maine's courts, ease the number of people incarcerated unnecessarily in our jails, and save the state valuable resources that could be reinvested elsewhere.

April 19, 2019

REPORT: We Belong Here

We Belong Here: Eliminating Inequity in Education for Immigrants and Students of Color in Maine

October 3, 2017

Change is Possible: Solitary Confinement Reform in Maine

Over the past four decades, prisons across the country have increasingly relied on solitary confinement—isolating prisoners in small poorly-lit cells for 23-24 hours per day—as a disciplinary tool for prisoners who are difficult to manage in the general population.

July 19, 2016

Unequal Access is Unequal Justice: Maine's Two-Tiered System of Reproductive Health Care

UPDATE: In June 2019, Gov. Mills signed a bill into law that requires all insurance policies that cover prenatal care, including MaineCare, to also cover abortion care.

July 19, 2016