New Crackdown Aims to Jam Inmates' Illegal Cell Phones
Wednesday, federal prison officials conducted a rare test at a Western Maryland lockup that blocks phone signals.
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Wednesday, federal prison officials conducted a rare test at a Western Maryland lockup that blocks phone signals.
More than a dozen inmates are being charged with murder in a deadly Delaware prison uprising back in February.
A man wrongly convicted of rape was awarded $1.7 million on Wednesday under a new Michigan law that allowed him to seek state compensation for the 35 years he spent in prison.
A notorious figure in Boston's Roman Catholic priest sex abuse scandal was quietly released from prison Friday morning after completing a 12-year sentence for the rape of a boy in the 1980s.
Barring any last-minute snafus, O.J. Simpson will walk out of prison a free man in about three months, having persuaded a Nevada parole board the bungled hotel-room heist he pulled nearly 10 years ago was a monumental error in judgment and one he will never repeat.
A federal prison guard supervisor charged with repeatedly raping a female inmate who he knew spoke little English and would be turned over to immigration authorities was among three guards arrested Thursday in a prison sexual abuse scandal, authorities said.
Former NFL player Aaron Hernandez sounded as if he thought he would soon be freed in his last conversation with his fiancee before he killed himself.
One officer was killed after a hostage situation at a correctional facility in Delaware.
A maximum security prison in Delaware is on lockdown as officials respond to a hostage situation.
Maryland's second-highest court says a man sentenced to 13 years in prison for trying to fly contraband into a maximum-security state prison aboard an aerial drone must be resentenced.
Dozens of prison employees say they are being shortchanged by the staff. It has sparked outrage and protests across Baltimore.
Two Maryland prison agency managers who were fired amid misconduct allegations say they are whistleblowers who lost their jobs.
The U.S. Department of Education has found that Maryland's spending on prisons is growing at a rate that's twice as fast as spending on education.
Corrections officials say officers at an entrance to a prison in Jessup found hidden boxes containing cellphones attached to a truck making a delivery.
Trial dates have been set for three men accused of trying to use a small, remote-controlled aircraft to smuggle drugs, tobacco and pornography into a maximum-security state prison in western Maryland.
Governor Larry Hogan announced Tuesday that the Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services will complete the final transfer of inmates and detainees from the Baltimore City Detention Center (BCDC).
A Maryland panel studying the state's corrections system is scheduled to meet.
More than 20 years after banning prisoners from receiving student aid, some federal and state inmates could be eligible for Pell grant money to take college courses while still behind bars.
Maryland's prison admissions fell 19 percent over the last decade, driven by a 43 percent drop in admissions in Baltimore, according to a data analysis presented to a state panel on Wednesday.
A former children's counselor in Maryland and Arizona been sentenced to 35 years in prison for sexual exploitation charges in a case involving a Southern California pediatric nurse accused of sexually abusing his 6-week-old foster child.
A maintenance man has been sentenced to 30 years in prison for fatally stabbing a property manager in Reisterstown.
The former chief operating officer of a Maryland-based federal contractor faces up to 23 years in prison for tax fraud and conspiring to steal from workers' health and welfare plans.
A woman has been sentenced to 25 years in prison for fatally stabbing a man in a bar fight.
Two men have each been sentenced to more than 100 years in prison for their roles in killing a man who refused to lie about an arrest.
Mustafa Eraibi receives a 30 year sentence, with all but 12 years suspended.
