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| Corrections chief says he plans outside review in response to teenager’s suicide at Long Creek |
| By pressherald.com- Matt Byrne |
| Published: 11/23/2016 |
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Maine’s corrections commissioner will convene a panel of outside groups to scrutinize department policy in the wake of a suicide by a transgender teenager at Long Creek Youth Development Center, the first death in at least 20 years at the state’s premier youth correctional facility, the commissioner said Tuesday. Joseph Fitzpatrick said he also has issued temporary policy directives following the death at the South Portland facility of Charles Maisie Knowles, a 16-year-old transgender boy who was being held there on a felony arson charge. Knowles, who hung himself Oct. 29 and died Nov. 1, had been on and off suicide watch several times, his mother, Michelle Knowles, said. The interview is the first Fitzpatrick has granted since the death more than three weeks ago. He said he was motivated to speak out because he had become exasperated and frustrated with the tenor of media coverage, including from national experts who were critical of the department but who have no experience with Long Creek. Read More. |
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