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'Survivors deserve better': State support needed to expand Maine's rape kit tracking pilot

Daniel Lampariello

August 22, 2025 |

WGME-TV |

Broadcast TV News |

3-5 Minutes

Response Location: United States, Maine

Maine's rape kit tracking pilot program, designed to give sexual assault survivors more control in their investigations, works like package tracking. Victims receive a postcard with a kit number after evidence collection and can check the status of their kit online.

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Opioids in prison: How one state's success could work in Maine

Daniel Lampariello

May 02, 2019 |

WGME-TV |

Broadcast TV News |

5-15 Minutes

Response Location: United States, Rhode Island

Maine is looking to pilot what has been a successful inmate drug rehabilitation program in Rhode Island. Based on the premise that providing controlled doses of the drugs will decrease overdoses, the Medicated Assisted Treatment program has "showed a 60 percent decrease in drug overdose deaths in Rhode Island among those who were recently incarcerated."

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