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Baltimore City Detention Center (BCDC, formerly known as the Baltimore City Jail) is a Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services state prison for men and women. It is located on 401 East Eager Street in downtown Baltimore, Maryland. It has been a state facility since July 1991. [1]
It was established in 1811 as the first prison in the state and the second of its kind in the country and the original buildings faced towards East Madison Street above the east bank of the Jones Falls stream and adjacent to the old stone walls of the Baltimore City Jail (now renamed the Baltimore City Detention Center), earlier established in ...
[121] [122] [123] School trips were canceled until mid-May, [124] [125] and Baltimore's city schools were closed on April 28. [126] In addition, both the University of Maryland campus in downtown Baltimore and the Mondawmin Mall were closed early. [127] Protests also took place in other U.S. cities.
Maryland entered a $13 million settlement towards officers' wages after an investigation revealed correctional officers worked overtime without pay.
Three men incarcerated for 36 years in Maryland were exonerated Monday in the slaying of a Baltimore teenager after a review of their case.
A Maryland board approved more than $340,000 for a settlement on Wednesday in compensation for Demetrius Smith who was wrongly convicted of murder and first-degree assault and spent more than five ...
In 2020, after being exonerated, the trio sued the Baltimore Police Department, Kincaid, and two other police officers, accusing them of coercing statements to support a manufactured narrative. [ 8 ] [ 9 ] In 2023, the Baltimore Board of Estimates approved a US$ 48 million settlement outside of court between the trio and the Baltimore Police ...
The private prison industry has long fueled its growth on the proposition that it is a boon to taxpayers, delivering better outcomes at lower costs than state facilities. But significant evidence undermines that argument: the tendency of young people to return to crime once they get out, for example, and long-term contracts that can leave ...