Warden Out, Nineteen Guards Administratively Charged in Maryland Prisoner’s Death
Colin Wolf, a prisoner at Maryland’s Roxbury Correctional Institution (RCI) in Hagerstown, was found dead in his cell at around 11:15 p.m. on May 20, 2026. Earlier that day, a guard performing rounds told Wolf’s cellmate that he needed to see Wolf, 32, as part of his count, according to internal reports reviewed by The Baltimore Banner.
The cellmate said that Wolf, a mentally impaired man convicted for killing his two-year-old niece, was asleep and refused to wake him up. The guard proceeded to enter the cell, found Wolf unresponsive and called for medics. While the details of what happened next remain unclear, a boot print was later found on Wolf’s head.
Seemingly in conflict with one internal report, the cellmate, who has not been charged with Wolf’s killing, said a guard told him Wolf had been dead for hours. Tom Wolf, a retired Baltimore police detective and the father of the deceased, said he was told by investigators that his son may have been dead in the cell for hours or even days, given signs of decomposition on the body. Guards at RCI, a medium security prison, are required to conduct prisoner counts three times a day and perform rounds every 30 minutes.
Less than one month later, according to a July 15 announcement from the Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services (DPSCS), the agency—along with the Maryland State Police—was investigating “potential criminal misconduct” by RCI guards and staff. DPSCS also announced that 19 RCI guards were administratively charged in connection with Wolf’s death.
In addition, eight medical personnel—all of whom worked for prison medical profiteer Centurion—faced administrative charges and a statewide ban from employment at prison facilities. RCI’s warden, Laura Golliday, appears to have been persuaded to retire, effective August 1 of this year. Golliday’s former security chief, the agency said, “is no longer in state employment.”
As PLN reports elsewhere in this issue, Maryland’s prisons have become increasingly deadly in recent years. [See: PLN, Aug. 2026, p. 32.] Wolf was the seventh prisoner killed across Maryland’s 13 state prison facilities in 2026. Another RCI prisoner, Kelvin Hite, 27, was killed two weeks before Wolf. As PLN also reports in this issue, eight prisoners at RCI were hospitalized for stab wounds following a brawl between members of MS-13 and the Black Guerilla Family, a rival gang. [See: PLN, Aug. 2026, p.62.]
Sources: The Baltimore Banner, The Herald-Mail
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