Washington County Jail Changing Procedures After Hanging
The Washington County sheriff says he has ordered changes in jail procedures after an inmate apparently hanged himself in his cell.
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The Washington County sheriff says he has ordered changes in jail procedures after an inmate apparently hanged himself in his cell.
A Montgomery County man has been sentenced to 12 years in prison for a drunken driving crash that killed two friends who were crossing the road.
A federal appeals court is hearing oral arguments about the strip searches of eight workers at a Maryland state prison near Hagerstown.
Corrections officials say the man convicted of kidnapping and killing an 11-year-old girl was slashed with a homemade weapon in prison.
Garrett County Sheriff Rob Corley says two correctional officers have been fired in connection with an inmate's escape from the county jail in January.
Authorities have arrested a teenager who attacked a guard and escaped from a Maryland youth detention facility in April.
A Hagerstown man accused of terrorizing four teenagers at a campsite last year is going to prison.
The family of a man whom Cuban authorities sentenced to 15 years in prison said a special prayer for his return on the first night of the Jewish holiday of Passover.
Maryland Public Safety and Correctional Services Secretary Gary Maynard is making a trip to Cumberland to talk about inmate work projects.
The American Civil Liberties Union says Maryland's prison agency may be invading the privacy of Facebook users by asking prospective correctional officers to let background investigators view their personal websites.
Sitting in her cubicle Monday in Jessup, Carolann Pollard flipped through papers on her desk and raved about her bosses. Though she makes a few dollars a day, the former high school science teacher is able to use high-end graphic software to develop floor plans for state office buildings and render 3-D images of furniture. As she says, what else is she going to do while serving her 30-year prison sentence?
A federal judge has sentenced a man to 20 years in prison for robbing a liquor store in Towson and threatening to kill the clerk.
The prison industry arm of the Maryland Division of Correction is hosting the National Correctional Industries Association's convention in Baltimore.
The Maryland Senate has voted to require the governor to decide within 180 days whether an inmate sentenced to life in prison should be paroled.
Maryland has finished counting prison inmates to comply with a new state law that changes how they are counted for legislative redistricting purposes.
A Maryland man has been sentenced to more than 17 years in prison for his part in a tax fraud scheme.
A Montgomery County judge has sentenced a husband and wife each to 45 years in prison in the 2009 ice pick killing of a man in Wheaton.
The House of Delegates approved a measure Tuesday which would limit the say of Maryland governors in the parole of violent offenders.
A Maryland state prison inmate is serving 10 more years for killing a cellmate who murdered two adolescent girls.
A Maryland state prison inmate is spending an additional five years behind bars for an escape that got him less than a day of freedom last summer.
The feds have taken over the former Supermax prison in Baltimore and Maryland is getting $20 million to build two new state prisons in Jessup.
Maryland and California prison officials said Friday they have suspended youthful offender diversion programs featured on the television show "Beyond Scared Straight" after the U.S. Justice Department warned they could lose federal funding.
A new Maryland law that counts prison inmates as residents of where they last lived will delay when lawmakers will see updated census numbers for the purpose of redrawing legislative districts, Senate President Thomas V. Mike Miller said Friday.
Maryland prisons officials have suspended programs that send young people into prison to divert them from committing crimes.
The Maryland medical examiner's office has ruled the death of a state prison inmate at the Western Correctional Institution near Cumberland a homicide.
