Keywords: Crime and punishment
Item 152379
Carroll/Dwyer murder trial scrapbook, Volume 2, 1938
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society
Date: 1938
Location: South Paris
Media: Ink on paper
This record contains 1266 images.
Item 152229
"Portland Press Herald" reporter Lawrence C. Dame, ca. 1925
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society/MaineToday Media Date: circa 1925 Media: Glass negative
Exhibit
Rum, Riot, and Reform - Neal Dow
"… pauperism, poverty, brutality, degradation and crime." - Neal Dow, Speech on his 93rd birthday, March 18, 1897 X Great Moral Ideas in the…"
Exhibit
Rum, Riot, and Reform - 1620 to 1820: New England's Great Secret
"In 1685, Maine taverns were prohibited from selling alcohol to Native Americans and were held accountable if they drank too much."
Site Page
The Freedom & Captivity digital collection in the Maine Memory Network, and the complete digital archive housed at Colby Special Collections, is a repository of personal testimonies, ephemera, memorabilia, artifacts, and visual materials that capture multiple dimensions of the experiences of incarceration for individuals, families, and communities, as well as for survivors of harm.
Site Page
Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection - Crime & Disaster - Page 1 of 2
"… Portland Evening Express and Press Herald covered crime and disaster vehemently, and often promoted it on the front page of the paper."
Story
Stripped Of More Than Clothing
by Dan Adams
Juvenile strip searches while incarcerated.
Story
Hurt People Hurt People
by Nicole Lund
Lund describes experience volunteering at Maine State Prison and befriending an incarcerated person.
