Susan Sharon
Deputy News DirectorDeputy News Director Susan Sharon is a reporter and editor whose on-air career in public radio began as a student at the University of Montana. Early on, she also worked in commercial television doing a variety of jobs. Susan first came to Maine Public Radio as a State House reporter whose reporting focused on politics, labor and the environment. More recently she's been covering corrections, social justice and human interest stories. Her work, which has been recognized by SPJ, SEJ, PRNDI and the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, has taken her all around the state — deep into the woods, to remote lakes and ponds, to farms and factories and to the Maine State Prison. Over the past two decades, she's contributed more than 100 stories to NPR.
Got a story idea? E-mail Susan: ssharon@mainepublic.org. You can also follow her on twitter @susansharon1
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In their 119-page complaint being filed under the Federal Tort Claims Act, 100 plaintiffs are seeking accountability from the Army, the Department of Defense and Keller Army Hospital for allegedly violating their own "policies, regulations and orders" intended to protect the public from soldiers with mental illness. -
Forty-five Maine prisoners are currently working remote jobs for outside companies. A few are working full-time, earning more than corrections officers. One is making well into the six figures. Here's why Maine's approach to education and work in prison is making waves in the world of corrections. -
Forty-five Maine prisoners have been hired by outside companies to do remote jobs from their cells. A few are earning more than corrections officers. -
Three teens who escaped from the Long Creek Youth Development Center in South Portland on Friday afternoon are back in the custody of the Maine Department of Corrections.
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Maine State Police say they have found the suspect in a Friday shooting in North Windham in which one person died.
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The jail had been threatened with revocation of its operating license after a recent inspection turned up "systemic gaps" in standards for health care delivery in a correctional setting.
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Jail operations were restricted by the MDOC because of a substantial "concern for the health and safety of staff, inmates and visitors"
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The Maine Department of Corrections has restricted operations at the Piscataquis County Jail, citing concerns about the health and safety of staff, inmates, and visitors.
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After an investigation the DOC says it has identified how the escape occurred and is taking steps to prevent similar events in the future. But questions about the method used by the teen and the steps being taken by the department were not immediately answered on Monday. -
Pam Ashby is accusing the jail's for-profit health care provider of negligence. And she's alleging that the sheriff and more than a dozen corrections officers subjected her son to a "cruel and unusual death" by allowing a treatable infection to progress to the point of incapacitating him.
