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聽lettersnewsI have been following the news聽about the proposed expansion of the Penobscot County Jail with distress. This is the last thing we should be spending public funds on in Maine. We know that jails and prisons can add harm to harm, 聽 enhance trauma, 聽 deepen poverty, have monumental failure ra nike air force tes measured in 聽 rates of recidivism , and are incapable of effectively handling and addressing substance use disorder. We know that the 聽 vast majority聽of people who end up in jail are poor, traumatized, and/or struggling with mental illness or substance use disorder. Jail is a horrible, brutal, and cruel way to manage social problems. Take these funds and inves stanley espana t them in communi stanley uk ty support structures that actually address and ameliorate poverty, mental illness, trauma, and substance use disorder.Catherine BestemanPortlandMore articles from the BDN Jlwh When They See Us reveals failures in juvenile justice system
A 43-year-old logger from Jackma yeezy canada n died of an apparent heart attack Wednesday while working in the woods near Sandy Bay, an unorganized township outside of Jackman, according to the Somerset County Sheriffs Office.Walter J. Allen was working for E.J. Carrier when he was stung by bees and went into cardiac arrest about 12:30 p.m., Chief Deputy Michael Mitchell said Friday. His fellow workers a owala dministered CPR but were unable to resuscitate Allen.Allen, who had no known allergy to bees, was stung four times, according stanley cup to Mitchell.More articles from the BDN |
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