- Baltimore jail officers accused of taking bribes, bringing drugs to gang members
(CNN) -- A large group of Baltimore corrections officers and members of a notorious prison gang have been working together to peddle drugs, phones and sex inside the city's jail, prosecutors say....[
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CNN, Saturday, November 23, 2013
- 14 more corrections officers charged in Baltimore corruption probe involving jail gang
Fourteen current or former Maryland corrections officers were arrested Thursday, accused of aiding members of a violent prison gang, the latest development in a sweeping corruption investigation at two state-run detention facilities....[
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Washington Post, Friday, November 22, 2013
- Baltimore Black Guerrilla Family indictments hit 48 suspects
Baltimore police, prosecutors and federal agents launched a massive strike against the Black Guerrilla Family gang this week, after indicting 48 suspects in an alleged eight-year campaign of drug dealing and violence that claimed 10 lives....[
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Baltimore Sun, Thursday, November 7, 2013
- A 7th guard pleads guilty to aiding gang
A seventh correctional officer from a Maryland-run detention center pleaded guilty Tuesday to helping members of the Black Guerrilla Family prison gang run drug-smuggling and money-laundering operations from behind bars....[
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Washington Post, Wednesday, October 30, 2013
- How one gang took root in Maryland's prisons
Five years ago, next to the chapel in a Maryland prison, the Black Guerrilla Family kept its own office with desks, chairs - even computers. The group's ranking members met there with community leaders, including a former Maryland state ......[
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Washington Post, Tuesday, July 16, 2013
- Cellphone-jamming technology to be installed at Baltimore City Detention Center; It could be up to a year before the technology is deployed.
Maryland corrections officials are working toward installing cellphone-call-blocking technology at the Baltimore City Detention Center following a scandal in which a violent prison gang reigned over the state-run jail......[
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The Washington Post, Friday, June 28, 2013
- Maryland lawmakers to begin deeper look at Baltimore jail scandal next week;
Maryland lawmakers plan to start digging deeper next week into the problems that came to light at a Baltimore jail as a new commission begins a series of hearings and site visits to state and local correctional facilities....[
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Washington Post, Thursday, June 20, 2013
- Teenage prison guards may explanation behind gang coup in Baltimore jail
The scandal at the Baltimore City Detention Center, where 13 female guards were accused in April of essentially handing over control of the jail to gang members, may be partly the legacy of a short-lived state experiment of hiring ......[
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Washington Post, Wednesday, June 19, 2013
- Sixth Former Roxbury Correctional Officer Pleads Guilty, Admits Assault of Inmate and Cover-up Conspiracy
Jeremy McCusker, a former correctional officer at Roxbury Correctional Institution (RCI) in Hagerstown, Md., yesterday pleaded guilty to assaulting an inmate and conspiring with other officers to cover up that assault. McCusker is the sixth former RCI officer to enter a guilty plea in federal court.
According to court documents filed in connection with his guilty plea, McCusker admitted that, during the midnight shift on March 8-9, 2008, he, Lanny Harris, Philip Mayo and two other RCI officers were involved in an assault of an inmate, identified by the initials K.D. McCusker acknowledged that he and other RCI officers assaulted K.D. in ...[
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US Department of Justice, Friday, May 24, 2013
- Prison gang member guilty in stabbing ; Judge signals intention to give 15-year sentence
A member of a violent prison gang now active on Anne Arundel County streets was convicted last week for his role in a triple stabbing...[
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The Capital , Tuesday, February 15, 2011
- Crips leader gets 4 years
Prosecutors: Man organized gang initiation in Millersville...A Glen Burnie gang leader was sentenced yesterday to four years in prison for orchestrating a gang initiation...[
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The Capital (Annapolis), Saturday, June 13, 2009
- Prosecutors Get Reports On Prison Brutality Claims
Maryland State Police investigators have given prosecutors in Allegany and Washington counties their reports on prison brutality claims that led to the firing of 23 correctional officers in April, authorities said ...[
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Associated Press Newswires, Tuesday, August 19, 2008
- PRISON CORRUPTION CITED ALLEGATIONS AGAINST 21 OFFICERS IN REPORTS ON GUARD'S DEATH
Twenty-one prison guards at the Maryland House of Correction were implicated in contraband smuggling and other corrupt activities in ...[
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The Baltimore Sun, Wednesday, March 5, 2008
- Prison locked down following fights
The Maryland Correctional Institution south of Hagerstown was locked down on Friday after as many as 225 inmates were involved...[
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Hagerstown Morning Herald , Friday, June 15, 2007
- Two inmates stabbed in fight at Jessup
the union that represents correctional officers, said the union is bringing in national experts ...[
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Baltimore Sun , Saturday, June 2, 2007
- Corruption and the Maryland public-sector prison guard union
Readers of this blog are familiar with my writing on public-sector prison guard unions. In Privatization and the Law and Economics of Political Advocacy, my article in the Stanford Law Review, I discussed the often-heard critique of prison privatization that charges that privatization will distort criminal law because private prison firms will have an incentive to lobby for greater criminal penalties. But, I argued, this charge ignores the massive role already played by public-sector prison guard unions like the California Correctional Peace Officers Association, which has been very active in pro-incarceration lobbying....[
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Washington Post, Wednesday, April 30, 2014
- Racketeering: Correctional officer pleads guilty
Baltimore, Aug 14 (IBNS) Jennifer Owens, a/k/a O and J.O., age 31, of Randallstown, Maryland, pleaded guilty on Tuesday to a racketeering conspiracy for smuggling drugs and other contraband for Tavon White and other member of the Black Guerilla Family (BGF) gang inside several correctional facilities....[
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India Blooms News, Wednesday, August 14, 2013
- Breakthrough in cold case reopens controversial chapter in Md. corrections; Suspect one of many released early from psychotherapy in ‘70s...
More than two decades after Maryland lawmakers abandoned a controversial approach to rehabilitating some of its most violent criminals, a haunting reminder of that failed experiment has surfaced....[
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Washington Post, Tuesday, July 16, 2013
- Department of Corrections officers take plunge for charity in Prince George's County
UPPER MARLBORO, Md. (AP) - Department of Corrections officers in Prince George's County are taking the plunge to benefit schoolchildren. Senior officers will participate in a dunk tank event Friday at the Department of Corrections in Upper ......[
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Associated Press, Friday, July 12, 2013
- Cellphone-jamming technology to be installed at Baltimore City Detention Center; It could be up to a year before the technology is deployed.
Maryland corrections officials are working toward installing cellphone-call-blocking technology at the Baltimore City Detention Center following a scandal in which a violent prison gang reigned over the state-run jail......[
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The Washington Post, Friday, June 28, 2013
- Prosecutors Get Reports On Prison Brutality Claims
Maryland State Police investigators have given prosecutors in Allegany and Washington counties their reports on prison brutality claims that led to the firing of 23 correctional officers in April, authorities said ...[
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Associated Press Newswires, Tuesday, August 19, 2008
- Two inmates stabbed in fight at Jessup
the union that represents correctional officers, said the union is bringing in national experts ...[
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Baltimore Sun , Saturday, June 2, 2007