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Published
July 7, 2020

Jail staff followed rules in pepper spraying mentally ill inmates, corrections department says

But the advocate who sought the review says it makes no mention of accommodations for such inmates as required by law.
Published
May 17, 2019

Psychiatric patient who killed father allowed to move into Augusta group home

A judge says he'll approve a request from a Riverview Psychiatric Center patient found not criminally responsible for the 1995 killing of his father to move to a group home in Augusta.
Published
May 15, 2019

Democrats’ bill calls for sweeping review of Maine’s mental health system

Several Democratic lawmakers want a task force to find fixes for a mental health system that has failed to deliver community services decades after major institutions closed.
Published
March 18, 2019

Maine loses latest fight over Riverview funding

Gov. Mills is reviewing her options following the decision by the federal government that the state must repay $72 million stemming from when the psychiatric hospital was decertified.
Published
February 27, 2019

Mills administration to change scope of new psychiatric facility in Bangor

Rather than sticking with Gov. Paul LePage's plan for a privately run 'step-down' facility, Gov. Janet Mills said the new unit will operated as part of Dorothea Dix Psychiatric Center and serve a broader scope of patients.
Published
February 22, 2019

Riverview Psychiatric Center regains certification, and that could mean $20 million a year for Maine

The state facility in Augusta had been decertified because of problems with its treatment of patients.
Published
January 7, 2019

Unsigned contract leaves Mills administration to decide how state’s new psychiatric center will be run

Correct Care Solutions of Tennessee agreed to the incoming governor's request not to sign the contract drawn up by the LePage administration.
Published
December 17, 2018

Attorney files motion for contempt against Maine DHHS commissioner

Sarah Branch says her mentally ill client's ordeal of having to spend nearly a month in jail before receiving court-ordered treatment is an example of a larger problem.
Published
December 12, 2018

Court master moves to block state’s funding plan for new psychiatric facility

Daniel Wathen says Maine DHHS wants to pay a contractor to run the facility with $5.4 million that is supposed to fund community-based services.
Published
August 15, 2018

Our View: Riverview Psychiatric Center fix should fall to Maine’s next governor

Paul LePage's half-implemented plan, created in secrecy and largely without stakeholder input, should not be shoehorned through in his final months in office.