A felon who tried to sell two semi-automatic weapons to an undercover Baltimore police officer will spend the next 15 years in a federal prison. U.S. District Judge Catherine C. Blake handed down the punishment Tuesday against Devan Mack, who ...

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The police commissioner in Maryland’s largest city has been appointed to a police reform work group created by an organization of U.S. mayors. Baltimore Police Commissioner Michael Harrison will be one of three law enforcement leaders on the U.S. Conference ...

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In Maryland, police departments must report whom they stop and search. But the statistics police departments around the state are filing are incomplete and unreliable.

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Six teams are vying to become an independent monitor over police reforms in Baltimore. The Baltimore Sun reports that the six teams were chosen as finalists from a list of more than two dozen applicants for the job. The team selected will ...

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ANNAPOLIS — If Donald Trump’s campaign was any precursor to his administration, the president-elect could threaten criminal justice reform underway in Maryland, some civil rights advocates say. Following a U.S. Department of Justice report that revealed potentially unconstitutional practices in ...

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As conversations about police conduct, racial disparities and flaws in the criminal justice system have been taking place in Baltimore and around the country, colleges and universities have launched courses aimed at examining the root causes of these societal issues ...

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Condemning mandatory minimum sentences and mass incarceration, a group of attorneys, civil rights advocates and business leaders urged attendees at the National Urban League’s annual conference to work toward long-term solutions to eliminate these and other criminal justice issues plaguing ...

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HAGERSTOWN — Gov. Larry Hogan is announcing a $540,000 state grant to test an alternative to incarceration for those convicted of nonviolent crimes linked to heroin or opioid addiction. It’s called a day reporting center, and it’s planned for a ...

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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. The Baltimore Sun reports that such an increase is not unique to Maryland. Nationally, state ...

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WASHINGTON — The Justice Department is underutilizing programs meant to keep low-level criminal offenders out of prison and is doing a poor job of tracking their success, a watchdog report found Thursday. The audit from the department’s inspector general examines ...

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