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flashl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-10-08 04:35 PM
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Md. prison inquiry is widening
25 guards fired or on leave; source, inmate detail abuses

With 25 correctional officers facing termination or already fired, a probe that began last month into whether they beat inmates at two Western Maryland prisons has grown into one of the most extensive investigations in years for the state penal system.

Detectives are working with state police and local prosecutors investigating several encounters between inmates and officers in early March at the Roxbury Correctional Institution in Hagerstown and the North Branch Correctional Institution in Cumberland. So far, 17 officers from RCI have been fired and eight officers from North Branch are on paid administrative leave, prison officials said.

Gary D. Maynard, the state secretary of public safety and correctional services, said in an interview yesterday that the discipline involves an "unusually high number of officers," but not all were involved in an assault. He said some were believed to have lied to investigators, covered up for colleagues or failed to intervene.

Of the 8,000 correctional officers guarding 23,000 inmates in Maryland, Maynard said, "99.9 percent of them are hard-working and dedicated, and follow policy and state law."

Baltimore Sun
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ColbertWatcher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-10-08 04:50 PM
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1. The GOP-controlled media has suddenly found a conscience in CA, too...
...Governor Gropenegger suddenly (and with cameras rolling) became concerned about the welfare of prisoners, but it happened to be in opposition to the prison guard union.

But, alas, the GOP has always wanted to control prisons, but why?

http://www.sentencingproject.org/Admin/Documents/publications/inc_prisonprivatization.pdf">The Sentencing Project seems to think there's something fishy about privatizing prisons.

Some Cornell students http://government.cce.cornell.edu/doc/html/PrisonsPrivatization.htm">did a study.

And of course, The Heritage Foundation has a http://www.heritage.org/Research/Crime/BG650.cfm">different take.
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flashl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-10-08 05:10 PM
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2. Probably AFTER the recent prison riots and another disease outbreak.
The CA prison healthcare system is/been in receivership for some time , there an upcoming prison system medical review shortly. Likely, they will find, there's been no changes.
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ColbertWatcher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-10-08 05:24 PM
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3. I don't trust the GOP...
...to change anything for the better.

All their so-called reforms are supposed to do is funnel money to the GOP and all their friends through government contracts, etc.
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