On Jan. 21, we met with Foster Bates, an inmate at Maine State Prison who serves on the board of the prison chapter of the NAACP.
Do you think the Special Operations Group is helping prevent violence here?
"Their presence isn't necessary here. This facility doesn't have the violence that would warrant it. You have places such as Walpole, Riker's Island, Angola, Pelican Bay, prisons in Baltimore and Jersey that ...
On Jan. 21, we met with Foster Bates, an inmate at Maine State Prison who serves on the board of the prison chapter of the NAACP.
Do you think the Special Operations Group is helping prevent violence here?
"Their presence isn't necessary here. This facility doesn't have the violence that would warrant it. You have places such as Walpole, Riker's Island, Angola, Pelican Bay, prisons in Baltimore and Jersey that ...