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| Legislators grill Corrections chief on use-of-force incidents |
| By .pressherald.com - David Hench |
| Published: 03/29/2013 |
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AUGUSTA — A legislative committee questioned Corrections Commissioner Joseph Ponte on Wednesday about his department's internal-affairs and use-of-force procedures, in response to an incident at the Maine Correctional Center last year. The Criminal Justice and Public Safety Committee spent an hour questioning Ponte about the use of restraint chairs, the use of pepper spray, the department's investigative procedures and its ability to track uses of force, including by specific officers. A report in the Maine Sunday Telegram on March 17 described a prison captain's use of pepper spray on a restrained inmate who was not allowed to wash his face for 24 minutes after the spraying on June 10. The story was accompanied by a video of the incident on the newspaper's website. Read More. |
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