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After MD inmate death, 19 correctional officers and 8 medical personnel administratively charged
Nineteen correctional officers at Roxbury Correctional Institution in Western Maryland have been administratively charged after an inmate was found dead there.
MD state prisons saw 46 inmate homicides since 2015 — 22 in past two years
Inmate homicides have increased 75 percent at Maryland state prisons in 2025, and about 166 percent in 2024, according to the state.
Dept. of Public Safety orders emergency transfer of inmates at Baltimore facility
Maryland DPSCS ordered an emergency transfer from MRDCC after engineers found structural risks, moving 393 incarcerated people and staff.
‘Constant and indefinite lockdowns’: Advocates for MD prisoners ask AG, DPSCS to address staffing shortages
Advocates for prisoners in Maryland’s correctional facilities have asked state officials to address staffing shortages that have led to "constant" lockdowns.
Maryland asks judge to toss lawsuit over solitary confinement of mentally ill prisoners
Maryland prison officials are asking a federal judge to throw out a lawsuit that claimed putting incarcerated people with serious mental illness into extended solitary confinement violates the U.S. Constitution’s […]
Maryland prisons sued over use of solitary confinement on the seriously mentally ill
A new federal lawsuit claims that Maryland prisons are unconstitutionally putting incarcerated people with serious mental illness into extended solitary confinement.
Family sues Maryland over 2016 inmate slaying
The family of an incarcerated man who was beaten to death by his cellmate in a western Maryland prison filed a civil rights lawsuit last month alleging prison officials and […]
