Md. Correctional Reorganization Announced
The Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services says it's reorganizing to improve communication among its pretrial, prison and parole-and-probation units.
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The Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services says it's reorganizing to improve communication among its pretrial, prison and parole-and-probation units.
Staff members at a maximum-security prison in western Maryland found two bullets inside an inmate's bagged meal that was assembled in the institution's kitchen, the state Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services said Tuesday.
An American imprisoned in Cuba since December 2009 after bringing communications equipment onto the island wanted reassurance that what he was doing was legal but was told by his company not to ask Cuban officials, the man's wife said Monday.
Maryland correctional officials say a maximum-security prison near Cumberland remains on modified lockdown a week after an inmate turned over two live bullets to a staff member.
The man found guilty of killing a Baltimore Marine learns his fate.
Prince George's County prosecutors say a Largo man has been sentenced to life in prison in a stabbing death four years ago.
A Cumberland man is agreeing to serve 10 years in federal prison for running a child pornography bulletin board with about 140 members.
Art created by maximum-security prison inmates is on display at Allegany College of Maryland in Cumberland.
The wife of an American man who has spent nearly two years in prison in Cuba wants people to contact members of Congress and write letters to newspapers to urge her husband's return.
A state prison in Allegany County is dedicating a memorial to public safety workers made of bricks salvaged from the Baltimore Coliseum.
Authorities say a man who tried to rob a College Park bank last year has been sentenced to 15 years in prison.
A former lobbyist who was a rising star under Jack Abramoff's tutelage was sentenced Wednesday to nearly two years in prison for giving public officials meals and event tickets.
Matthew VanDyke's mother says she finally heard the words she's been waiting to hear -- that her son plans to return to the U.S.
The United States offered to let a convicted Cuban spy return home in exchange for the release of an imprisoned American, but Cuba rebuffed the offer, U.S. officials said.
It was a four-year nightmare. Amanda Knox was locked up for a murder that she would eventually be exonerated of.
Maryland corrections officials say a prisoner has been stabbed at Roxbury Correctional Institution.
Maryland State police say an inmate has been slain at the Western Correctional Institution, and a suspect is being held.
Interfaith leaders gathered in Washington Friday to pray for the Maryland man placed behind bars in Cuba for spying.
Maryland public safety officials say they'll use a $350,000 federal grant to intensify the fight to keep cell phones out of prisons in Baltimore.
A defiant Maryland man who faked his death by jumping into the Chesapeake Bay near Virginia Beach has been sentenced to seven years in federal prison, which he says amounts to a death sentence.
An attorney from Baltimore has been sentenced to two years in prison for possession of child pornography.
A Maryland Public Service Commission judge is giving tentative approval to a large solar energy project on the grounds of a state prison complex near Hagerstown.
A standoff between former New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson and the Cuban government stretched into a second day Friday.
A Maryland man has been sentenced to more than 12 years in prison for robberies of banks in Maryland, Georgia, North Carolina and Delaware.
A judge ruled Wednesday that there is enough evidence for a trial on whether the state was negligent when an inmate killed another inmate aboard a prison bus in 2005.
