Western Correctional Institution News

Inmate suffers serious injuries CUMBERLAND - A 57-year-old inmate of the maximum-security Western Correctional Institution was severely injured and rushed to the Memorial campus of the Western Maryland Health System late Wednesday morning, according to the Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services.

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

Defense attorneys on Tuesday described their clients - two former correctional officers who face second-degree assault charges - as heroes who worked every day in a prison environment to protect the public and are wrongly accused of assaulting an inmate 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 ...

A misdirected letter from convicted child-killer Jamaal K. Abeokuto will be treated like a timely habeas corpus petition, a judge has ruled in U.S. District Court in Baltimore.

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.

The American Red Cross Blood Services - Greater Alleghenies Region congratulates the Western Correctional Institution and North Branch Correctional Institution for becoming the 2009 Prison Challenge champions.

Dreary skies and cold rain couldn't wash the smiles off the Day of Caring and Sharing volunteers' faces Friday morning.

The Allegany County Health Department found 22 licensed food service establishments with zero violations during the latest inspection period.

A Maryland state prison inmate has pleaded guilty to first-degree murder for strangling his cellmate at the maximum-security Western Correctional Institution near Cumberland.

Fast action by observant correctional staff at North Branch Correctional Institution led to the discovery of a wide variety of contraband there, plus two cell phones at Western Correctional Institution next door.

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

Inmates of the Western Correctional Institution completed improvements to the gymnasium floor at the Salvation Army facility in Cumberland recently.

The Black Guerrilla Family smuggled drugs, weapons, cell phones and champagne into Maryland prisons, and gang members continued to operate the drug ring from behind bars, federal prosecutors said Thursday.

State prison officials say a man serving a life sentence for the gruesome murder of a 15-year-old girl was killed during a fight in his cell at the Western Correctional Institution near Cumberland.