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, and consistently appear at the top of national lists for , with Maine often cited as the state with the lowest violent‑crime rate and New Hampshire and Vermont routinely ranked among the least viole...
rs are incarcerated at dramatically higher rates than white Mainers: state and national analyses identify Maine among states where Black residents are imprisoned at roughly nine times (or more) the ra...