Maia Nehme
Staff Reporter
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Maia Nehme covers cops, courts and Latine communities for the News. She previously covered housing and homelessness. Originally from Washington, D.C., she is a sophomore in Benjamin Franklin College majoring in History.
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MAIA NEHME
New state bill would expand access to absentee ballots in prisons

Criminal justice advocates are pushing for all Connecticut prisons to carry absentee ballots, eliminating administrative barriers to voting for eligible incarcerated people.

April 22, 2025

MAIA NEHME
Unsettled scores: 20 years of stalled wage theft solutions in New Haven

A proposed city ordinance is the most recent in a decades-long string of attempts to fight wage theft in New Haven. But little progress on the ordinance’s implementation raises the question of why the issue still has not been addressed.

April 16, 2025

ARIELA LOPEZ & MAIA NEHME
At “Justice for Malik” corner, an anniversary and a fundraising kickoff

New Haveners gathered on Monday to commemorate Malik Jones’s death in a 1997 police shooting.

April 14, 2025

MAIA NEHME
Two fatally shot downtown on Monday night

The New Haven Police Department responded Monday night to three calls alerting them to a double homicide. Police say the perpetrator is still at large.

April 9, 2025

MAIA NEHME
Laid-off staff at city refugee resettlement agency rekindle volunteer program amid federal funding cuts

Ever since the Trump administration slashed $4 million in federal funding for New Haven’s Integrated Refugee and Immigrant Services, four former employees — three of whom were laid off because of the funding cuts — have mobilized a volunteer program to keep the agency afloat.

April 4, 2025

MAIA NEHME & ADA PERLMAN
Three local faith groups join lawsuit against Trump’s recall of place of worship protection in immigration crackdown

If successful, the lawsuit would establish legal protections for houses of worship from interference by federal immigration authorities.

March 31, 2025

MAIA NEHME
Man arrested for threatening comment made outside Westville Synagogue

The New Haven Police arrested an individual for making an antisemitic threat at an individual just outside a synagogue building.

March 31, 2025

MAIA NEHME
Seven-year anniversary of prisoner homicide sparks calls for strip search policy reform

Legislators and criminal justice advocates condemned strip searches at a press conference honoring J’Allen Jones, who died at the hands of correctional officers on March 25, 2018, after refusing to comply with a search.

March 26, 2025

ARIELA LOPEZ & MAIA NEHME
New Haven detective solves nearly three decade-old child abduction case

Aided by a national DNA testing company, city police found Andrea Reyes, a New Havener who went missing in 1999 at 23 months old.

March 6, 2025

MAIA NEHME & REETI MALHOTRA
Connecticut agrees to $3.75 million settlement for homicide of man in New Haven prison

The homicide of Carl “Robby” Talbot following the excessive use of force and chemical agents by correctional officers was settled by appalled Connecticut lawmakers nearly six years after Talbot’s death.

March 4, 2025

MAIA NEHME & CHLOE BUDAKIAN
Lamont proposal to end free texts for incarcerated people weakens historic CT law

Governor Ned Lamont’s budget proposal walks back on a 2021 law that made Connecticut the first state to provide free phone calls to incarcerated people.

February 28, 2025