Western Correctional Institution News

Crediting a prison inmate for a night's sleep is less of a stretch for the student sprawled on their bed in a Salisbury University dorm.

Representatives of the association responsible for negotiating for six of nine elements of Maryland government workers engaged in "a lively conversation" with all four members of the District 1 legislative delegation on Monday.

Using DNA evidence to get a cold-case match, a county grand jury yesterday indicted a man serving time for burglary with a 1993 Annapolis rape.

CUMBERLAND - A state prison inmate has been charged with murdering his cellmate at Western Correctional Institution in April.

Share + Nov 16, 2009 11:03 pm US/Eastern BARTON, Md. 1 of 1 Inmates at the Western Correctional Institution will begin clearing a three-mile section of a hiking trail that will lead to a memorial of the crew of a B-52 that crashed.

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.