Our Mission
The Maine Prisoner Advocacy Coalition (M-PAC)
is comprised of Maine prisoners, their friends and families, victims of crime, and others committed
to ethical, positive, and humane changes
in Maine's prison system.
"No one truly knows a nation until one has been inside its jails. A nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens but its lowest ones."
Nelson Mandela
Maine Prisoner Advocacy Coalition
"I believe that very few men are capable of estimating the immense amount of torture and agony which this dreadful punishment [solitary confinement] inflicts upon the sufferers…I hold this slow and daily tampering with the mysteries of the brain, to be immeasurably worse than any torture of the body: and because its ghastly signs and tokens are not so palpable to the eye and sense of touch as scars upon the flesh; because its wounds are not upon the surface, and it extorts few cries that human ears can hear; therefore I the more denounce it, as a secret punishment which slumbering humanity is not roused up to stay. . . . cruel and wrong.”
~ Charles Dickens, 1842
M-PAC Update letters
2010 Issues of The Call
2009 Issues of The Call
Other Maine Publications
M-PAC supports the post-release efforts by advocates in Lewiston-Auburn. Read their newsletter,
December 2011
February 2012
April 2012
October 2011
June 2012
August 2012
October 2012
