A Maryland inmate who officials say impregnated multiple guards and ran a jailhouse gang has reached a plea deal with federal prosecutors. Tavon White plans to plead guilty to a charge of racketeering conspiracy and faces a maximum sentence of ...

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ANNAPOLIS — Cellphone blocking technology will be installed at the Baltimore City Detention Center and added measures will be taken to better screen correctional officer applicants, Gov. Martin O’Malley’s administration announced early Thursday in response to a contraband smuggling scandal. ...

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By all accounts, this has not been a good stretch of the year for the Obama administration. In fact, what columnist Ruth Marcus called an “unfortunate confluence of unfortunate events,” the Benghazi, Internal Revenue Service and Associated Press probe “scandals” will ultimately not make the first paragraph — not even the first page — of the account of the Obama Administration in the history books.

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A smuggling scandal involving gang members and correctional officers at the Baltimore City Detention Center followed Gov. Martin O'Malley to a feel-good event at the Port of Baltimore Wednesday, where the governor was asked about the scandal by a national television crew.

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The U.S. Attorney’s office says the alleged leader of a jailhouse contraband ring has pleaded not guilty to federal charges in the case. Marcia Murphy, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Attorney’s office, says Tavon White appeared at arraignment Monday and ...

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Gov. Martin O'Malley can't be looking forward to his return from a week-long trade mission to Israel.

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A few government and politics headlines for Friday.

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The state’s correctional department will be conducting an internal investigation and reviewing its policies after 15 officers were arrested in connection with an allegedly widespread drug ring run by a prison gang, Gary D. Maynard, secretary of the department, said Tuesday.

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Twenty-two members of the Dead Man Incorporated prison gang are facing a federal racketeering indictment that alleges that they were involved in drug trafficking, smuggling contraband into prison and four killings. The indictment was unsealed Wednesday after the arrests of ...

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Baltimore resident Rainbow Williams, 32, was sentenced to 151 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release last week for his role in the Black Guerilla Family gang. Williams, who was sentenced Tuesday by Judge William D. Quarles ...

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