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Act to Create a Department of Corrections

This law broke the Department of Mental Health and Corrections into two separate agencies.

Newspaper clipping from the Lewiston Daily Sun, March 31, 1981 – Headline: Corrections: Comm’r Proposes Department Be Split in Two — Lewiston Daily Sun, March 31, 1981

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Explore the history of Pineland

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How to move forward and avoid repeating Pineland’s past

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See what the community has been up to since Pineland closed its doors

This project was supported, in part by grant number 2001MESCDD-02, from the U.S. Administration for Community Living, Department of Health and Human Services, Washington, D.C. 20201. Grantees undertaking projects with government sponsorship are encouraged to express freely their findings and conclusions. Points of view or opinions do not, therefore, necessarily represent official ACL policy.
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