May 13, 2008
Sun coverage: Violence in Md. prisons
Hearing today targets knife inquiry
A prison system captain walked out of the Maryland House of Correction the night after an officer's stabbing death with a knife in his pocket that police investigators were desperately seeking because it might have been used in the attack, records show.
Evidence in killing of guard vanished
The fatal stabbing of correctional officer David W. McGuinn at the Maryland House of Correction on July 25, 2006, marked what would turn out to be one of the last chapters in the bloody history of the antiquated Jessup prison.
State to change policy on prisoners' release
Reacting to concerns of elected officials in Western Maryland, the O'Malley administration announced yesterday that it is changing the way inmates are released from state prisons.
Prison remains locked down
A day after 18 inmates were seriously injured in an apparent gang fight in a Baltimore prison yard, the Metropolitan Transition Center remained locked down yesterday as authorities began interviewing the more than 100 men who were in the exercise yard at the time of the melee.
Inmates clash in prison fight
At least 18 inmates were seriously stabbed or cut and dozens of others were injured when a "major fight" broke out between two groups of prisoners at the Metropolitan Transition Center in Baltimore yesterday, authorities said.
Old 'Pen' has a violent past
Yesterday's melee at the Metropolitan Transition Center in East Baltimore brought back memories of its notorious, violence-soaked past, when it was known simply as the Maryland Pen.
Uneasy goodbye to 'The Cut'
Sharon James can hear the echoes of inmates' voices when she passes the vacant cells at the shuttered Maryland House of Correction in Jessup.
Finally, Md. shuts prison
One visit to the Maryland House of Correction in Jessup in February and new Corrections Secretary Gary D. Maynard knew it shouldn't remain a maximum-security prison. But when a correctional officer was stabbed on March 2, Maynard concluded that the facility built in 1878 needed to be shut down immediately - and Gov. Martin O'Malley quickly agreed.
Problem prison to close today
The Maryland House of Correction in Jessup will be officially shuttered today, a move that is long overdue, according to those familiar with the decrepit and dangerous 128-year- old maximum-security prison.
Violent prison in Jessup shuts down
State officials have abruptly shut down the Maryland House of Correction, an antiquated and notorious maximum-security prison in Jessup where inmate violence had spiraled out of control and corruption had run rampant.
State prisons chief quits amid criticism
The commissioner of the Maryland Division of Correction retired yesterday amid continuing turmoil over the state's troubled prisons and the slayings of two correctional officers by inmates this year.
Assaults on jail guards doubled
Inmate assaults on Maryland correctional officers rose sharply from 2003 to 2005 -- a time when staff positions were being eliminated, overtime budgets were cut and vacancies went unfilled, a legislative panel was told yesterday.
Inmates get day in court
Three days after the stabbing death of a correctional officer inside a state prison in Jessup, the two inmates accused in the killing appeared in Anne Arundel County District Court yesterday under heavy guard as a judge ordered them held without bond.
Guard is fatally stabbed at Jessup prison
The stabbing death of a Maryland correctional officer -- the second killed this year -- is sending shock waves through the state's troubled and violence-beset prison system and is prompting calls to replace its top managers.
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