Death of Maine prisoner is subject of opera

A new opera tells the story of a man who died in the Maine State Prison in Warren, allegedly due to mistreatment at the hands of prison guards.
According to earlier reports in VillageSoup’s Augusta-based Capital Weekly, Victor Valdez, a Dominican immigrant who was serving a four-year sentence for assault, died on Nov. 27, 2009, after spending eight days in the Special Management Unit at Maine State Prison in …