Maryland Correctional Training Center News

State prison officials said Thursday a notification system to be used by the prison complex south of Hagerstown in the event of escapes is almost in place.

Two inmates who walked away from a work detail in a minimum security prison in Washington County last week were arrested Tuesday at an Ellicott City motel, according to Maryland State Police.

Two minimum-security inmates who walked away from the Maryland Correctional Training Center near Hagerstown have been caught, according to the Maryland State Police.

Two inmates who walked away from a state prison last week near Hagerstown have been returned to the Maryland Correctional Training Center after they were found at a Howard County motel, Maryland State Police said.

Two minimum-security inmates who escaped from a work detail Friday at the Maryland Correctional Training Center pre-release building south of Hagerstown were captured Tuesday night, Maryland State Police said in a news release.

Two minimum-security inmates remain at large after escaping from a fence-painting detail at a state prison near Hagerstown.

Gov. Tim Kaine is set to update Virginia's first-in-the-nation initiative to electronically compile the records of black Virginians whose family history was smudged by slavery and racism.

Eight people who worked at a state prison near Hagerstown are suing Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services officials for what they claim were illegal strip searches by co-workers last year in a vain search for drugs.

Employees at the Maryland Correctional Training Center are taking legal action against some of their co-workers and prison administrators after they were strip searched.

HAGERSTOWN, Md. - Eight people who worked at Maryland Correctional Training Center in Hagerstown are suing nine colleagues over strip searches conducted last year.

Deputy State Fire Marshals have charged an inmate at the Maryland Correctional Training Center south of Hagerstown with first-degree arson.

A transformer that provides power to a Maryland Correctional Training Center housing unit caught fire Thursday afternoon, forcing 255 inmates to be moved to another housing unit, prison officials said.

Maryland fire marshals are investigating a fire in a cell at a Hagerstown prison.

Smithsburg's mayor and town council held an emergency meeting Friday after two council members complained the town had been using an inmate work crew without formal approval from the council and without notifying town police.

Men from all over Maryland, now incarcerated near Hagerstown, are helping revive the Chesapeake Bay on the Eastern Shore.

When Nancy Rouse interned at the Maryland Correctional Training Center in 1979, she told herself that one day she would be a prison warden.

A unique program geared to preparing prison inmates to reunite with their families and loved ones upon release has spread to Washington County.

The Maryland Division of Correction is swearing in new wardens at two state prisons near Cumberland.

Nancy Forsythe knew corrections officials this week were testing a whistle designed to notify residents of an emergency at the state prison complex on Roxbury Road south of Hagerstown.