Roxbury Correctional Institution News

Four former state correctional officers face sentencing in Cumberland for assaults on inmates at the North Branch Correctional Institution.

Officials said 11 grams of heroin were brought to Roxbury Correctional Institution on Monday, and because of the amount, it is believed the heroin was going to be distributed, according to court records.

Problems surrounding the transportation of a witness at the center of this week's second-degree assault case against three former correctional officers hampered the trial in Washington County Circuit Court.

A jury has found three former correctional officers not guilty in the beating of an inmate at the Roxbury Correctional Institution.

Jurors in the trial of three correctional officers fired from Roxbury Correctional Institution in 2008 were shown photographs Monday of a badly beaten inmate during the trial's first day in Washington County Circuit Court.

The four girls remember how their father made them laugh when he imitated television and movie characters, how he encouraged reading and how he always was willing to lend support.

That's how 57-year-old Allen Longnecker identified himself on a Friday night in April at the REACH cold-weather shelter.

National POW/MIA Recognition Day moved inside of the razor-lined walls of the Roxbury Correctional Institution on Friday as a group of inmate veterans remembered American service personnel who made the ultimate sacrifice.

Several defense witnesses on Thursday denied seeing correctional officers assault an inmate at Roxbury Correctional Institution south of Hagerstown on March 8, 2008.

Jury selection has begun in Maryland for the trial of two former state correctional officers charged with assaulting an inmate at the nearby Roxbury Correctional Institution.

Two former Roxbury Correctional Institution officers are scheduled for a jury trial beginning Tuesday morning in Washington County Circuit Court.

Metro officials are forecasting a major budget shortfall next year. Expenses are projected to grow by more than $90 million while revenue drops by nearly $40 million.

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

Law enforcement and correction staff have taken hospital hostage training at Washington County Hospital, where an inmate fatally shot a correctional officer in 2006, because such a tragedy could happen again.

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.

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.

A jury convicted a former state correctional officer Tuesday of assaulting four inmates at the maximum-security North Branch Correctional Institution, giving the state its first trial victory in a series of cases alleging brutality at two western Maryland prisons.

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

Prosecutors spent much of Friday afternoon in Allegany County Circuit Court allowing video evidence to further close the window - and narrowing the list of suspects - during which six former North Branch Correctional Institution inmates suffered bruises, cuts and abrasions to their faces and heads.

A Roxbury Correctional Institution inmate who was stabbed 13 times in the back at the prison on Thursday wasn't seriously injured, a state prison spokesman wrote in an e-mail on Friday.