An investigation by federal authorities tended to validate his claims. He was, according to the authorities, turning the jail into a criminal enterprise.

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The state’s correctional department will be conducting an internal investigation and reviewing its policies after 15 officers were arrested in connection with an allegedly widespread drug ring run by a prison gang, Gary D. Maynard, secretary of the department, said Tuesday.

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Two more former Maryland correctional officers have pleaded guilty to federal conspiracy charges in the 2008 beating of an inmate. The Justice Department says former officer Walter Steele pleaded guilty Thursday in Baltimore to conspiring with others to obstruct an ...

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A Jamaican woman identified as a leader of a multi-state marijuana distribution ring that allegedly killed and dismembered one of its couriers has been sentenced to life in prison for racketeering. Jean Brown, 43, was sentenced on Friday in U.S. District Court in Baltimore.

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ALEXANDRIA, Va. — A federal judge dealt a severe blow Friday to a long-running torture lawsuit filed against military contractor CACI by four Iraqis who say they suffered abuse at the notorious Abu Ghraib prison. At a hearing in U.S. ...

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The Senate turned away eight amendments to legislation that would repeal the death penalty in Maryland, but the debate will continue Tuesday morning.

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HAGERSTOWN — Inmate-on-inmate homicides at Maryland state prisons spiked in 2012 to seven, the highest number in at least 11 years, the Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services said Tuesday. The seven slayings, up from four in 2011, ...

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GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba — Lawyers for the five Guantanamo Bay prisoners charged in the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks want to know if U.S. government officials have been eavesdropping on their private conversations with the defendants. The evidence for ...

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HAGERSTOWN — A Hagerstown woman is avoiding jail time after striking a plea deal in the drowning death of her 7-month-old son. Twenty-seven-year-old Taria King pleaded guilty Thursday to reckless endangerment in the death last March of Ronald Oliver Jr. ...

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CRESAPTOWN — A western Maryland state prison inmate faces a first-degree murder charge in the strangulation of his cellmate. The Allegany County State’s Attorney’s Office said Thursday that a grand jury in Cumberland indicted 28-year-old Wesley Curtis for the slaying ...

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