The American Civil Liberties Union of Maine was in court Wednesday to argue for the widespread release of low-income Mainers ...

Maine has spent more than two years debating how to solve a public defense crisis that many say has been in the making for ...

The three-day trial over Maine's failure to provide adequate legal representation to low-income defendants concluded today in ...

The ACLU of Maine is joining their New England counterparts to sue President Donald Trump over his order to end birthright ...

A judge recently ruled state failed to provide low-income defendants with legal representation. Over the past three days, a ...

In separate legal actions, Maine Attorney General Aaron Frey and the American Civil Liberties Union of Maine sued the Trump ...

The Penobscot County Jail sent an average of 69 people a day to other Maine jails last year, costing $2.1 million.

New Hampshire Indonesian Community Support and two other organizations are challenging an executive order signed late Monday ...

The case was filed by the American Civil Liberties Union, ACLU of New Hampshire, ACLU of Maine, ACLU of Massachusetts, Asian Law Caucus, State Democracy Defenders Fund, and Legal Defense Fund on ...

A judge ruled this month that hundreds of people in Maine who are constitutionally entitled to legal representation have been effectively denied an attorney. Now, the court must decide what to do ...

Now, the court must decide what to do about it. The ACLU of Maine is asking that people be released from jail after seven days without a lawyer, and that their charges be dismissed if they still ...