NewsTrust - Baltimore Prisons - Most Recent Stories

Early Release

Fri, 01 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Urbanite - By Michael Corbin - Jul. 01 (News) - By 2002, the sentencing law had produced such racially disparate outcomes that the U.S. Sentencing Commission observed that it had come to “foster disrespect for and lack of confidence in the criminal justice system” for most African Americans.

NewsTrust Rating: Not rated yet - See Info » - Review It Visit NewsTrust | About | Sign Up | Disclaimer

Prisoner accused of killing correctional officer loses pretrial appeal

Fri, 24 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Baltimore Sun - By Andrea F. Siegel - Jun. 24 (News) - One of two prisoners facing capital murder charges in the fatal stabbing of a correctional officer lost a pretrial appeal Friday at the state's highest court.

NewsTrust Rating: Not rated yet - See Info » - Review It Visit NewsTrust | About | Sign Up | Disclaimer

The State of Juvenile Justice in Maryland

Fri, 17 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

WYPR - By Sheilah Kast - Jun. 17 (News Analysis) - Nick Moroney of the Maryland Attorney General's Juvenile Justice Monitoring Unit talks to Sheilah about waiting lists, inadequate facilities for girls, and other findings in the unit's latest quarterly report.

NewsTrust Rating: Not rated yet - See Info » - Review It Visit NewsTrust | About | Sign Up | Disclaimer

Inmate’s lawsuit claiming guard ordered gang “hit” gains traction

Wed, 15 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

City Paper - By Van Smith - Jun. 15 (News) - For a prisoner without a lawyer, Michael Smith has done pretty well as a civil plaintiff in federal court. His civil-rights claim is that numerous Maryland prison officials failed to protect him from a series of attacks by other inmates arising from a “hit” put on his life by a correctional officer he says is tied to the Bloods gang. Thanks to the thoroughness with which Smith has documented and argued his case in motions before U.S. District Judge Peter Messitte, it has survived two rounds of efforts by the Maryland Attorney General’s Office to have it thrown out.

NewsTrust Rating: Not rated yet - See Info » - Review It Visit NewsTrust | About | Sign Up | Disclaimer

Women inmates sew 1812 flags for bicentennial celebration

Tue, 14 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Baltimore Sun - By Julie Baughman - Jun. 14 (News) - The sew shop at the Maryland Correctional Institution for Women in Jessup is alive with the ticking sounds of Brother sewing machines, with Maryland state and U.S. flags draped over tables and chairs.

NewsTrust Rating: 1.0 average (not enough reviews) - See Review » - Review It Visit NewsTrust | About | Sign Up | Disclaimer

Maryland tries to address chronic health conditions in prison

Wed, 08 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Baltimore Sun - By Meredith Cohn - Jun. 08 (News) - State data suggest there are now more healthy prisoners among the 26,000 incarcerated in Maryland facilities — and that's good public policy, officials say. More diseases are being controlled and fewer costly hospital trips are needed, making the system more efficient. And when offenders return to their communities, they're healthier and less likely to infect others.

NewsTrust Rating: 4.2 average (not enough reviews) - See Review » - Review It Visit NewsTrust | About | Sign Up | Disclaimer

New city division to target violent repeat offenders

Thu, 02 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Baltimore Sun - By Tricia Bishop - Jun. 02 (News) - Baltimore State's Attorney Gregg L. Bernstein announced Thursday the launch of a new "Major Investigations Unit" devoted to dealing with violent repeat offenders — a criminal class that was key to his campaign last year.

NewsTrust Rating: Not rated yet - See Info » - Review It Visit NewsTrust | About | Sign Up | Disclaimer

The Labyrinth

Wed, 01 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Urbanite - By Michael Corbin - Jun. 01 (Special Report) - A trip through the state's juvenile justice system exposes our divided and contradictory thinking about young criminals—and suggests a way out.

NewsTrust Rating: Not rated yet - See Info » - Review It Visit NewsTrust | About | Sign Up | Disclaimer

Downsized

Tue, 31 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Urbanite - By Michael Corbin - May. 31 (Special Report) - “Bed Space Forecast for Baltimore Youth,” forecasts that, based on current trends and policies, the proposed jail could be downsized by half. With basic policy changes, it could be cut much further.

NewsTrust Rating: Not rated yet - See Info » - Review It Visit NewsTrust | About | Sign Up | Disclaimer

Maryland advocates eye Missouri model as juvenile justice solution

Tue, 31 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Capital News Service - By Ashley M. Latta - May. 31 (Special Report) - Ask some Maryland leaders interested in juvenile justice what they think of the state's system, and they say it's not working. Ask them how they'd reform it, and many point to the model used in Missouri.

NewsTrust Rating: Not rated yet - See Info » - Review It Visit NewsTrust | About | Sign Up | Disclaimer

A Community of Writers Celebrates Five Years

Tue, 31 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Baltimore Fishbowl - By B. Boyd - May. 31 (Opinion) - Launched in spring of 2006 by the ebullient Lucy Bucknell, who teaches in the film and media program at Hopkins, Writing Outside the Fence began as a course populated mainly by former prisoners but quickly morphed into a diverse community writing workshop and salon, for anyone who likes to write.

NewsTrust Rating: Not rated yet - See Info » - Review It Visit NewsTrust | About | Sign Up | Disclaimer

New youth jail in Baltimore is bad option

Fri, 27 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

The Gazette - By Catherine E. Pugh - May. 27 (Opinion) - The state should indefinitely delay current plans for a juvenile jail in Baltimore until it has a comprehensive plan for implementing community-based treatment for juveniles in the city.

NewsTrust Rating: Not rated yet - See Info » - Review It Visit NewsTrust | About | Sign Up | Disclaimer

Don't build a new youth jail in Baltimore

Mon, 23 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Baltimore Sun - By Hathaway Ferebee - May. 23 (Opinion) - A recent report from the National Council on Crime and Delinquency demonstrates clearly that the state's plan for a $100 million jail to house Baltimore City youths charged as adults is way out of line. But the answer is not necessarily a smaller jail, either.

NewsTrust Rating: Not rated yet - See Info » - Review It Visit NewsTrust | About | Sign Up | Disclaimer

A calculated indifference toward parole

Sat, 21 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Baltimore Sun - By Dan Rodricks - May. 21 (Opinion) - First Parris Glendening and now Martin O'Malley wouldn't even look in the general direction of any aging lifer seeking parole. Mr. O'Malley's official indifference has affected some 50 inmates up for parole or commutation.

NewsTrust Rating: Not rated yet - See Info » - Review It Visit NewsTrust | About | Sign Up | Disclaimer

Lending A Helping Hand To Youthful Offenders

Fri, 13 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

WYPR - By Ken Stukes - May. 13 (News) - Jessica Turral has a tough challenge. She wants to show local teens that a jail sentence is not something they have to inherit.

NewsTrust Rating: 3.5 average (not enough reviews) - See Review » - Review It Visit NewsTrust | About | Sign Up | Disclaimer

Gang members plead guilty

Tue, 03 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Baltimore Sun - By Peter Hermann - May. 03 (News) - The final three members of the Black Guerrilla Gang have pleaded guilty in federal court, wrapping up cases against 21 members what authorities described as a violent group responsible for money laundering, drug dealing and attacks inside Maryland prisons.

NewsTrust Rating: Not rated yet - See Info » - Review It Visit NewsTrust | About | Sign Up | Disclaimer

Md. comes to compliance with juvenile detention rules

Tue, 03 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Capital News Service - By Maggie Clark - May. 03 (News) - After at least two years of noncompliance and threats of funding cuts from the U.S. Department of Justice, Maryland appears to be on track for compliance with federal rules meant to protect juveniles from interacting with adult offenders when they’re detained in adult facilities.

NewsTrust Rating: Not rated yet - See Info » - Review It Visit NewsTrust | About | Sign Up | Disclaimer

Advocates Rally on Political Prisoner's Birthday

Thu, 28 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Indypendent Reader - By Ron Kipling Williams - Apr. 28 (News) - On Conway’s 65th birthday, advocates rallied for him in solidarity. He has been incarcerated for over 40 years.

NewsTrust Rating: Not rated yet - See Info » - Review It Visit NewsTrust | About | Sign Up | Disclaimer

Prison Prose

Wed, 27 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

City Paper - By Michael Corbin - Apr. 27 (Review) - 'Marshall Law: The Life and Times of a Baltimore Black Panther' is an important book of history and humanity in the face of extremity. The book is testimony to a political history that has largely been erased, a prologue to a history of Baltimore that has yet to be written, and an extraordinary bearing of witness by a man denied due process who has spent more than 40 years in Maryland’s prisons.

NewsTrust Rating: 4.0 average (not enough reviews) - See Review » - Review It Visit NewsTrust | About | Sign Up | Disclaimer

Lifer Lessons

Wed, 27 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

City Paper - By Van Smith - Apr. 27 (Interview) - Now 65 years old, Marshall “Eddie” Conway started serving a life sentence for murdering Baltimore police officer Donald Sager when he was 24. Back then, Conway was a postal worker and U.S. Army veteran. He was also a civil rights activist who, as a member of the NAACP and the Congress of Racial Equality, had helped organize efforts to better working conditions for African-Americans at a number of major employers in the Baltimore area. His most renowned role, though, was as Minister of Defense in the Maryland chapter of the Black Panther Party—a position that put him on the front lines of a successful government effort to undermine the party.

NewsTrust Rating: 3.7 average (not enough reviews) - See Reviews » - Review It Visit NewsTrust | About | Sign Up | Disclaimer

WikiLeaks documents outline new information on Balto. Co. man detained at GITMO

Mon, 25 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Explore Baltimore County - By Kevin Rector - Apr. 25 (News) - A newly leaked trove of classified documents pertaining to hundreds of detainees at the U.S. military prison in Guantanamo Bay includes new information on a Baltimore County man who has been detained there since 2006.

NewsTrust Rating: 3.5 average - 4 Reviews » - Review It Visit NewsTrust | About | Sign Up | Disclaimer

Leaked documents add details about Maryland terror suspect

Mon, 25 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Baltimore Sun - By Michael Dresser - Apr. 25 (News) - An Owings Mills High School graduate who is being held in military detention at Guantanamo Bay showed his willingness to become an al-Qaida martyr by participating in a plot to assassinate Pakistan's president, the government alleges in classified documents obtained by media outlets.

NewsTrust Rating: Not rated yet - See Info » - Review It Visit NewsTrust | About | Sign Up | Disclaimer

Through 'Turning Pages,' Fathers in Prison Read with Their Children

Sat, 23 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Reisterstown Patch - By Penny Riordan - Apr. 23 (News) - A Catonsville-based program works with dads at the Baltimore County Detention Center in Towson.

NewsTrust Rating: 3.4 average - 9 Reviews » - Review It Visit NewsTrust | About | Sign Up | Disclaimer

Court: Death-penalty trial can proceed

Tue, 12 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

The Daily Record - By Steve Lash - Apr. 12 (News) - The death-penalty trial of a man accused of stabbing a Jessup prison guard to death can proceed, Maryland’s top court said Tuesday

NewsTrust Rating: Not rated yet - See Info » - Review It Visit NewsTrust | About | Sign Up | Disclaimer

Blog update:Governor given deadline on a parole recommendations for lifers; O’Malley will sign bill –

Fri, 08 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Maryland Reporter - By Len Lazarick - Apr. 08 (News) - A bill that would give the governor six months to reject a recommendation for parole for someone who is serving a life sentence in prison is heading to the governor's desk, and a spokesman said he will sign the bill.

NewsTrust Rating: Not rated yet - See Info » - Review It Visit NewsTrust | About | Sign Up | Disclaimer