EDGEFIELD, S.C. — Leroy Nolan has spent the last 26 years behind bars at a federal prison for a drug conviction. In the prison factory, he works making T-shirts, backpacks and other products that are later sold to government agencies, nonprofits and others.
Frederick County Public Schools has announced a partnership with the Children of Incarcerated Parents Program earlier this month.
PHOENIX — Paz Lopez was set to spend Mother’s Day behind bars. The 42-year-old mother of six had been locked up in a Phoenix jail for the past month on forgery and other charges. She couldn’t post her $2,050 bail.
MIDLAND, Texas — Monsignor James Bridges retired two years ago after 21 years as pastor of St. Stephen’s Catholic Church in Midland, but the 89-year-old Lamesa native still pursues an ambitious ministry to 70 indigent inmates at a dozen Texas prisons.
PHILADELPHIA — When mobster Al Capone was jailed in Philadelphia in 1929, one newspaper portrayed his cell as a luxurious lockup, adorned with richly colored oriental rugs, polished wood furniture and other trappings the mob boss told the reporter were “very comfortable.”
Frederick County Public Schools has announced a partnership with the Children of Incarcerated Parents Program earlier this month.
PHOENIX — Paz Lopez was set to spend Mother’s Day behind bars. The 42-year-old mother of six had been locked up in a Phoenix jail for the past…
MIDLAND, Texas — Monsignor James Bridges retired two years ago after 21 years as pastor of St. Stephen’s Catholic Church in Midland, but the 8…
PHILADELPHIA — When mobster Al Capone was jailed in Philadelphia in 1929, one newspaper portrayed his cell as a luxurious lockup, adorned with…
With four weeks left in Maryland’s 2019 General Assembly session, legislators could still make reforms to how state prisons and jails use rest…
The Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee heard testimony Thursday on two bills that would change how incarcerated minors and pregnant women a…
Frederick County Public Schools has announced a partnership with the Children of Incarcerated Parents Program earlier this month.
PHOENIX — Paz Lopez was set to spend Mother’s Day behind bars. The 42-year-old mother of six had been locked up in a Phoenix jail for the past month on forgery and other charges. She couldn’t post her $2,050 bail.
MIDLAND, Texas — Monsignor James Bridges retired two years ago after 21 years as pastor of St. Stephen’s Catholic Church in Midland, but the 89-year-old Lamesa native still pursues an ambitious ministry to 70 indigent inmates at a dozen Texas prisons.
PHILADELPHIA — When mobster Al Capone was jailed in Philadelphia in 1929, one newspaper portrayed his cell as a luxurious lockup, adorned with richly colored oriental rugs, polished wood furniture and other trappings the mob boss told the reporter were “very comfortable.”
With four weeks left in Maryland’s 2019 General Assembly session, legislators could still make reforms to how state prisons and jails use restrictive housing.
The Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee heard testimony Thursday on two bills that would change how incarcerated minors and pregnant women are treated in state prisons and county detention centers.
Three weeks after identifying a suspect in a 2017 mass break-in at a city storage business, Frederick police said they will temporarily withho…
Several General Assembly bills introduced this week take aim at reforming aspects of how Maryland prisons use restrictive housing.
After more than a decade of hosting parenting classes and support groups for jailed women, a longtime Frederick volunteer organization is offe…
Less than a year after a riot at the Victor Cullen Center in Sabillasville, the facility became Maryland’s first juvenile detention center to …
Maryland’s 2019 General Assembly session is still a few weeks away, but legal professionals as well as advocates of justice-related reforms in…
With four weeks left in Maryland’s 2019 General Assembly session, legislators could still make reforms to how state prisons and jails use rest…
The Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee heard testimony Thursday on two bills that would change how incarcerated minors and pregnant women a…
Three weeks after identifying a suspect in a 2017 mass break-in at a city storage business, Frederick police said they will temporarily withho…
Several General Assembly bills introduced this week take aim at reforming aspects of how Maryland prisons use restrictive housing.
After more than a decade of hosting parenting classes and support groups for jailed women, a longtime Frederick volunteer organization is offe…
Less than a year after a riot at the Victor Cullen Center in Sabillasville, the facility became Maryland’s first juvenile detention center to …
Maryland’s 2019 General Assembly session is still a few weeks away, but legal professionals as well as advocates of justice-related reforms in…
When John Plummer talks about the young men under his watch at the Maryland Department of Juvenile Services’ Victor Cullen Center in Sabillasv…
A Frederick County court has sentenced a West Virginia man convicted of drug dealing charges to prison for 30 years.
Maryland State Police say charges are pending against an inmate at the Jessup Correctional Institution in the death of another inmate.
A Frederick-raised Maryland National Guardsman is seeking parole after serving seven years for murdering an Afghan civilian.
One young man accused of participating in an April attack on staff of the Victor Cullen Center in Sabillasville pleaded guilty this week, and …
The man who admitted to detonating a pipe bomb on a Thurmont police car has been sentenced to 10 years in prison.
Although they have lost, at least temporarily, many of the freedoms they fought to protect, they saluted the U.S. flag against the backdrop of…
A Wisconsin man was sentenced to three years in prison after being charged with transporting more than 160 pounds of marijuana into Maryland.
A Wisconsin man was sentenced to three years in prison after being charged with transporting more than 160 pounds of marijuana into Maryland.
A Frederick man was sentenced to 10 years in prison Wednesday.
An 18-year-old was sentenced to serve five years of a 50-year prison sentence for his role in April’s riot at a state-run juvenile detention c…
A Frederick man convicted after selling drugs that led to a fatal overdose has been sentenced to 25 years in prison.
A former Frederick-based doctor was sentenced to eight years in federal prison after being convicted of health care fraud and tax evasion.
Frederick County’s sheriff is denying allegations that juveniles held in the local jail are subject to unconstitutional conditions.
Maryland’s top public defender has sent Frederick County officials a letter outlining potentially unconstitutional conditions for juveniles he…
A former corrections officer at Maryland’s largest prison has been sentenced to time in a federal penitentiary for her role in a smuggling sch…
A man whose incarceration at the Frederick County Adult Detention Center while challenging his deportation inspired a protest earlier this sum…
A 24-year-old Frederick man was charged with a third-degree sex offense after having intercourse with a 15-year-old girl, according to Frederi…
Less than 24 hours after a first-degree rape case was dismissed against a man in Frederick County Circuit Court, new charges were filed agains…
During one of his prison sentences, Frederick resident Brandon McAllister was awakened by his cellmate in disciplinary segregation. Water was …
For Frederick-based prisoners’ rights advocate Kim Haven, solitary confinement is one of the biggest human rights issues of our era.
The Washington, D.C.-based group Interfaith Action for Human Rights is hosting a forum on solitary confinement in Maryland state prisons Tuesd…
Maryland prisoners could soon have more access to tablet computers for electronic books.
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