HAGERSTOWN — The state prison agency says it’s no longer allowing inmates to raise rescued pets for adoption at a medium-security prison in western Maryland after a pit bull bit two inmates and a correctional officer. The curtailment of the program ...

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HAGERSTOWN — Officials say a correctional officer at Hagerstown prison has been charged with trying to smuggle drugs into the facility. The Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services said in a news release that 52-year-old Patrick Merson of Waynesboro, ...

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HAGERSTOWN — Since a prison pet program began last July at the Maryland Correctional Training Center south of Hagerstown, 43 dogs and 16 cats have been rescued, officials said on July 21. Dogs and cats from across the region and ...

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John Anderson and James Jones walked into their classroom at the Maryland Correctional Training Center in Hagerstown on a recent morning wearing their jumpsuits to start another day of work. But the inmates’ jumpsuits were thick, protective body suits with a mesh head cover, and their classroom was actually a yard-- filled with thousands of buzzing bees.

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The medium-security Maryland Correctional Training Center near Hagerstown is becoming the fourth state prison where inmates who served in the military help train service dogs for disabled veterans.

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HAGERSTOWN — Authorities say an inmate has been stabbed at the Maryland Correctional Training Center in Hagerstown. Mark Vernarelli, a spokesman for the Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services, says the inmate was stabbed Monday night and a helicopter ...

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An inmate at the now-closed Maryland House of Correction has secured a $2 million default judgment against three corrections officers he said beat him and planted a murder weapon on him. Bradford Matthews filed the lawsuit in May 2009 seeking ...

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Maryland State Police say an inmate is back in custody one day after he escaped from the state prison complex near Hagerstown. They say Baltimore City Police detectives and a state police fugitive team captured 36-year-old Jerome Taylor shortly after ...

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HAGERSTOWN — A federal appeals court is hearing oral arguments about the strip searches of eight workers at a Maryland state prison near Hagerstown. The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond, Va., is set to hear Tuesday from ...

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