North Branch Correctional Institution News

As a new class began its training Monday at the Maryland Police & Correctional Commissions Academy at Allegany College of Maryland, its current class conducted a final step before graduation.

Three state correctional officers have received commendations for saving an inmate's life at the maximum-security North Branch Correctional Institution near Cumberland.

Three correctional officers from North Branch Correctional Institution were honored Wednesday for saving the life of an inmate who was attempting to commit suicide.

Five witnesses testified for the state Wednesday during the second day of the trial for two former correctional officers accused of assaulting a Roxbury Correctional Institution inmate on March 8, 2008.

Vacillating between grit and despair - between aggressive lawsuits and suicide attempts - Deane Brown, the prisoner who in 2005 blew the whistle on the torture of mentally ill inmates at the Maine State Prison's solitary-confinement "Supermax" unit, is struggling against prison conditions in Maryland, where he was exiled by the Baldacci ...

The Maryland Attorney General's Office dismissed charges against a former state correctional officer who was to go on trial Tuesday in Allegany County Circuit Court.

The last of six former state correctional officers faces trial for allegedly beating inmates at the maximum-security North Branch Correctional Institution near Cumberland.

A former correctional officer has been found guilty of conspiring to commit assault in the beating of inmates at the North Branch Correctional Institution.

A former correctional officer convicted last month in the beating of inmates at the North Branch Correctional Institution has asked for a new trial.

Jury selection began Wednesday in the case of a former state correctional officer who is standing trial on charges that he allegedly assaulted inmates at the North Branch Correctional Institution.

Required fields are marked with an asterisk The information you provide will be used only to send the requested e-mail and will not be used to send any other e-mail communications.

Md. to make flat offer to buy back crab licenses ANNAPOLIS a ' Maryland officials are rejecting hundreds of bids they received through a buyback program for crabbing licenses and offering a flat $2,260 per license instead.

Former North Branch Correctional Institution correctional officer Richard W. Robinson was found guilty of six counts of assault and six counts of conspiracy to commit assault Friday in Allegany County Circuit Court.

Former correctional officer Ryan B. Dolan was found not guilty of four counts of second-degree assault and one count of conspiracy to commit assault against inmates Monday in Allegany County Circuit Court.

Defense counsel D. Benson Thompson III felt that Maryland Attorneys General Franklyn Musgrave Jr.

Testimony will continue Monday in the assault trial of a former state correctional officer, one of several officers charged with assaulting inmates during an incident in March 2008 at the North Branch Correctional Institution.

Attorney General Douglas F. Gansler announced today that Tony V. Nery, 42, a former correctional officer at the North Branch Correctional Institute, was found guilty by a jury of four counts of assault in the second degree and four counts of conspiracy to commit assault.

A jury in Cumberland has convicted a state correctional officer of assaulting four inmates.

The prosecution suffered multiple setbacks during the second day of a jury trial against a former North Branch Correctional Institution officer accused of assaulting six inmates at the Cresaptown area facility when one attorney accused a witness of covering for someone.

Nearly 150 people packed Courtroom No. 1 in the Allegany County Courthouse earlier this week to begin the jury selection process in a trial charging a former North Branch Correctional Institution officer of abusing six inmates.