A landmark law signed on June 15, 2001, requires schools to teach Maine K–12 students about Wabanaki territories, economic systems, cultural systems, governments, and political systems, as well as the Wabanaki tribes’ relationships with local, state, national, and international governments.
October 10, 2022
A joint report from the ACLU of Maine and the Maine Center on Economic Policy detailing the enormous economic and financial costs of drug criminalization, and making the case for decriminalizing drugs in Maine.
March 21, 2022
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
What we learned: Through interviews with 115 students, parents, educators and administrators in over a dozen schools, we uncovered harrassment and discrimination against studen
October 3, 2017
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
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