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Maine Jail Gets a Pass for Using Pepper Spray on Mentally Ill Prisoners

Loaded on Dec. 1, 2020 by Daniel A. Rosen, Kevin Bliss published in Prison Legal News December, 2020, page 38
Filed under: Failure to Protect (General), Pepper Spray/Tear Gas, Mental Health. Location: Maine.

by Kevin Bliss and Daniel A. Rosen

In a June 2020 report, an official with the Maine Department of Corrections (DOC) determined that employees at the Cumberland County Jail (CCJ) in Portland followed “expected practices” in using pepper spray on detainees bound for a state psychiatric hospital.

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