The Right Investment? Corrections Spending in Baltimore City Prison Policy Initiative 2015 THE RI GHT I NVESTMENT? CORRECTI ONSSPENDI NG I N BAL TI MORECI TY FEBRUARY 2015 TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction: Mapping Baltimore’s Corrections and Community Challenges ................................................................................. 2 48T 48T Focus on Baltimore City ....................................................... 2 48T Public …
Maryland Prisoner Subject to “Hit” by Gang-Affiliated Guard Receives $40,000 Settlement by Maryland Prisoner Subject to “Hit” by Gang-Affiliated Guard Receives $40,000 Settlement A Maryland prisoner received $40,000 to settle a civil rights action that claimed he was assaulted three times due to a “hit” put out by a corrupt …
D.C. Area Federal Courts Reduce Staff because of Sequester Cuts by Derek Gilna D.C. Area Federal Courts Reduce Staff because of Sequester Cuts by Derek Gilna The sequester represents only a 3% across the board cut of federal spending, but it will have a noticeable impact on the operation of …
Maryland Jury Awards $5.6 Million for False Arrest and Detention by Matthew Clarke Maryland Jury Awards $5.6 Million for False Arrest and Detention by Matt Clarke On October 25, 2012, a Maryland jury awarded a man $5.6 million for damages incurred after he was arrested in Washington, D.C. on an …
Fourth Circuit Rules Maryland’s Non-Adoption of SORNA No Excuse for Non-Registration by Derek Gilna Fourth Circuit Rules Maryland’s Non-Adoption of SORNA No Excuse for Non-Registration by Derek Gilna Unfortunately for Brian Lee Gould, a convicted sex offender, the 4th Circuit has upheld his new conviction for non-registration under …
Guards at Baltimore Intake Convicted of Beating 26-Year-Old Female Prisoner by Guards at Baltimore Intake Convicted of Beating 26-Year-Old Female Prisoner On April 27, 2012, a Baltimore jury convicted two intake guards – Larry Morris and Shannon Rivies -- of conspiracy to commit reckless endangerment after they beat a …
Okezie v. Prince Georges Co., MD, Ptf's Mtn. for Sanctions for Spoliation, Police Brutality, 2014 Case 8:13-cv-00168-DKC Document 57-1 Filed 02/18/14 Page 1 of 12 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF MARYLAND BOLARINWA OKEZIE * * * * * * CASE NO. 8:13-cv-00168 DKC * * …
Sharp v. Baltimore City Police Department, MD, Settlement, First Amendment, Recording Officers, 2014 SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT AND RELEASE This Settlement Agreement and Release (hereinafter "Settlement Agreement") is entered into by and between Mayor & City Council of Baltimore (the "Mayor and City Council"), Baltimore Police Department ("BPD"), Christopher Sharp ("Sharp") and …
Maryland Court of Appeals Upholds Breathalyzer DNA Seizure by The Maryland Court of Appeals upheld the denial of a criminal defendant's motion to suppress DNA evidence used to convict him of manslaughter. In December 1995, Jacqueline Tilghman was raped and murdered. Semen found on vaginal and anal swabs was turned …
Maryland Police Covertly Spy on Peace, Anti-Death-Penalty Groups by Documents uncovered by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Maryland show that undercover officers from the Maryland State Police infiltrated peace activist and anti-death-penalty groups to monitor their activities. The documents were publicly released after the ACLU obtained them from …
Maryland Prisoner Gets Sentence Reduction Credits for “Special Project” Work by Bradford Holup, a Maryland state prisoner, received special training to do blood-spill cleanup work and did that kind of work for over two years in Maryland prisons. Blood-spill cleanup work qualifies as “special project” work for which prisoners are …
Comingling of Meanest and Greenest Prisoners Ordered to Cease in Maryland Prisons by A Maryland federal district court ordered prison officials at the Maryland State Penitentiary and the Maryland Reception, Diagnostic and Classification Center (MRDCC) to devise an efficient classification system to identify prisoners at risk of rape, and to …
Former Maryland Governor Acknowledges Politics Behind Life Means Life Policy by Parris Glendening, who served as Maryland's governor from 1995 through 2002, has acknowledged, around a decade later, the role that politics played in his adoption of a "life means life" policy that effectively ended early release for prisoners sentenced …
Maryland Repeals Death Penalty by Christopher Zoukis On May 2, 2013, Maryland became the sixth state in six years to abolish the death penalty, and the 18th state – along with the District of Columbia – that has rejected capital punishment. Maryland is the first Southern state to forgo executions …
Maryland Prisoner Challenges State Indecent Exposure Laws by A divided Maryland Supreme Court affirmed in May 2012 the holding of the Circuit Court of Montgomery County in a case wherein a Maryland state prisoner sought to establish that enacted indecent exposure legislation intended for circumstances found in a prison setting …
Federal Court Upholds Maryland Law that Reclassifies Prisoners for Redistricting by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On December 23, 2011, a Maryland federal district court three-judge panel upheld a state law that counts prisoners as residents of their legal home address rather than their prison address for redistricting purposes. …
$60,411 Attorney Fee Award in Maryland Prisoner’s Public Information Act Suit by The State of Maryland has agreed to pay more than $60,000 in attorney fees to settle a longstanding lawsuit brought by a prisoner who had requested public records pursuant to the state’s Public Information Act. While incarcerated at …
Petitions of Salih et al, MD, Pet Joint Reply to Memo, DOC ban on media interviews with prisoners, 2013.pdf PETITION OF * ROBERT MORGAN,# 273-810 * CIRCUIT COURT FOR FOR JUDICIAL REVIEW OF THE DECISION OF THE SECRETARY OF THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY AND CORRECTIONAL SERVICES * ANNE ARUNDEL …
Maryland Women Prisoners Sew Commemorative 1812 Flags by In July 2011, prisoners at the Maryland Correctional Institution for Women in Jessup were busy sewing 1812-style flags to be flown at Maryland public buildings. The plan was to replace the state’s old flags with the 1812-style flags, which have 15 stars …
Maryland DOC Rescinds Ban on Prisoner’s Book by On July 20, 2011, the Maryland Department of Public Safety & Correctional Services (DPSCS) rescinded its ban on The Marshall Plan: The Life and Times of a Baltimore Black Panther, a memoir co-authored by Maryland state prisoner Marshall “Eddie” Conway and Dominque …
