Cluster's bill would return management of the detention center and central booking facilities to the city beginning Jan. 1, 2015.

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Gov. Martin O’Malley late Tuesday announced the departure of state Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services Secretary Gary Maynard.

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A few government and politics headlines for Friday.

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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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General Assembly leaders will hold a joint briefing in June to discuss problems at Maryland's correctional facilities, the latest fallout from a sordid jail scandal revolving around drugs, sex and money in Baltimore.

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HAGERSTOWN — Maryland’s prison agency is teaming up with a guide-dog group to have jailed veterans train service dogs for wounded and disabled military veterans. Public Safety and Correctional Services Secretary Gary Maynard and leaders of America’s Vet Dogs announced ...

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