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Baltimore has high rate of staff-inmate sex
The Baltimore City Detention Center had the nation's second-highest rate of sexual contact between jail staff and inmates, according to a U.S. Department of Justice study released less than a month after federal prosecutors accused corrections officers at...
Tags: Abusive Behavior, Organized Crime, Allegany County, Black Guerrilla Family, Prosecution
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Alleged gang leader being held in poor conditions, lawyer says
As the alleged leader of the Black Guerrilla Family gang at the Baltimore City Detention Center, federal prosecutors say, Tavon White could get access to pretty much whatever he wanted: drugs, phones, money and sex. He is now being held under more...
Tags: Prisons, Trials, Black Guerrilla Family, Prosecution, Gang Activity
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O'Malley promises corrections reform as GOP calls for audit
Gov. Martin O'Malley said Thursday that he would expand the use of technology to block cell phone calls in Maryland corrections facilities, part of a set of reforms designed to "root out corruption" after a federal indictment alleged widespread gang...
Tags: Political Corruption, Organized Crime, Trials, Cell Phones, Regional Authority
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Security chief at Baltimore City Detention Center removed
State officials said Tuesday they removed the security chief at the Baltimore City Detention Center in the wake of a federal indictment that alleged an extensive smuggling scheme involving gang members and officers at the facility. The Maryland...
Tags: Organized Crime, Black Guerrilla Family, Prosecution, Safety of Citizens, Prisons
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Top jail officials to be polygraphed following gang indictment
State corrections secretary Gary D. Maynard ordered polygraph tests Friday of top administrators and "integrity reviews" of every employee at the Baltimore City Detention Center in an effort to root out corruption at the jail. Maynard has moved his...
Tags: Maryland State Police, Labor Legislation, Black Guerrilla Family, Labor Markets, Annapolis
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Inmates ask officers for contraband, retirees say
The inmates' requests often start small, former corrections officers say: a ballpoint pen, for example, or a sandwich from beyond the prison walls. "You may think it's insignificant," said former Cpl. Sheila Hill, who retired last year from the Patuxent...
Tags: Organized Crime, Hagerstown (Washington, Maryland), Prisons, Martin O'Malley, Black Guerrilla Family
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Report warned of jail officer's alleged gang ties in 2006
One of the corrections officers accused this week of helping Black Guerrilla Family members smuggle drugs into a Baltimore jail was flagged seven years ago for alleged gang ties. A state investigator raised concerns in 2006 that Antonia Allison might...
Tags: Organized Crime, Trials, Heroin, Black Guerrilla Family, Prosecution
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Unions do their business on taxpayers' dime
It's the old "fair share" argument, but this time it holds even less water than usual. The Maryland State Education Association, the union that bargains on behalf of K-12 teachers throughout Maryland, wants to force all teachers — members or not &#...Tags: Allegany County, Civil and Public Service, Howard County, Calvert County, Labor Legislation
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Assaults on staff are focus of scathing report at Catonsville psychiatric hospital
In-patient units at Spring Grove Hospital Center in Catonsville have become troubled environments where serious assaults on hospital staff are common, according to a scathing new report from a consultant for the Maryland health department. The chaos...
Tags: Psychiatry, Trials, Hospitals and Clinics, Maryland State Police, Mental Illness
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Balt. Co. employee dies after emergency at former golf course
A Baltimore County worker employed with the Property Management Division died after emergency personnel responded to a former golf course in Kingsville where he was working Monday, but officials released few details about the death. County spokeswoman...Tags: Golf
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Ernest B. Crofoot, labor organizer
Ernest B. Crofoot, a former labor organizer who later headed Council 67 of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, died Friday of complications from cancer at his Annapolis home. He was 88.
"Ernie was one hell of a trade...Tags: Frederick (Frederick, Maryland), Strikes, Parkville, Civil and Public Service, Ellicott City
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Robert W. Cos, crane safety consultant
Robert W. Cos, a crane equipment safety consultant who raised awareness in the 1980s of the unsafe car practice called "clipping," died Sunday of pancreatic cancer at Stella Maris Hospice. The longtime Canton resident was 65.
Robert William Cos, whose...Tags: Frederick (Frederick, Maryland), Elections, Primaries, Canton (Baltimore, Maryland), American Red Cross
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