Samantha Hogan

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Samantha Hogan focuses on government accountability projects for The Maine Monitor. She joined the newsroom as its first full-time reporter in 2019 with Report for America. Samantha was named the 2021 Maine’s Journalist of the Year by the Maine Press Association, and spent 2020 reporting on Maine’s court system through the ProPublica Local Reporting Network. Her reporting on county jails recording and listening to attorney-client phone calls won the Silver Gavel award from the American Bar Association and was also a semi-finalist for the Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting in 2023. Samantha previously worked for The Frederick News-Post and interned twice for The Washington Post.

A drawn illustration of the inside of a courtroom. On the left, an inmate dressed in an orange jumpsuit is looking at the empty seat next to them where their defense attorney should be sitting. On the right, sitting at a separate table, is a prosecutor.

9 min

Maine’s indigent defense crisis deepens

Advocates complain that defendants are being denied lawyers or assigned attorneys who aren’t up to the job.

BySamantha Hogan

October 8, 2023

A screenshot of Senator Stacey Guerin presenting the Maine Republican Party's weekly radio address.

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GOP lawmaker calls for scrutiny of DHHS after disclosure of eight public guardianship deaths

Lawmakers have scheduled an Oct. 25 meeting with the department to explain how it handles guardianships and how it will comply with notification requirements.