Today is Monday, the 127th anniversary of the first auto race in the United States. Here are some other news items. – Job market for lawyers might level off in 2023. – Hong Kong’s leader asks if foreign lawyers may ...
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Maryland authorities announced the arrest of a man who is charged with strangling a deaf inmate in a Baltimore jail.
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A fingernail clipper ceases to be a cosmetic instrument and becomes a deadly device when filed to a point and placed on a handle, Maryland’s second-highest court held.
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The American Prison Writing Archive is moving to the Sheridan Libraries at Johns Hopkins University.
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A former prison guard, two inmates and a so-called “facilitator” are the latest defendants to plead guilty to a federal racketeering conspiracy at a Maryland prison.
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Prisons were forced to adapt to the COVID-19 pandemic, but there’s little evidence to suggest enough changes have been made to handle future waves of infection.
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Welcome to Monday, the eighth anniversary of the slaying of 20 children and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. Here are some news items to get your week started. — Diploma privilege has short shelf life. ...
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Though Maryland’s prison population is down and legislative changes have reduced sentences for a number of nonviolent offenses, the reform discussion has not addressed a significant portion of the prison population: violent offenders who have served decades of their life ...
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What happens when a state agency decides to use a data-driven approach utilizing information from multiple sources to address a policy question?
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Federal prison officials abruptly reversed a controversial policy Thursday that had made it harder and more expensive for thousands of inmates to receive books by banning direct delivery through the mail from publishers, bookstores and book clubs.
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