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Baltimore County councilman calls for investigation into traffic stop racial disparities
Baltimore County Councilman Izzy Patoka said he has spoken with Inspector General Kelly Madigan, and has not filed any formal motions as of yet, “though there could possibly be.”
How ‘driving while Black’ persists in Baltimore County
Black drivers make up most of the traffic stops in Baltimore County, despite being 30% of the population — disparities police have known about for years but have failed to fix.
How a Maryland prisoner died an ‘excruciating’ death from dehydration
Lamont Mealy died of dehydration in an isolation cell at Western Correctional Institution in 2023. A lawsuit claims state officials covered it up.
Baltimore County state’s attorney confirms police chief on ‘Brady list’ over $3 parking violation
Baltimore County State's Attorney Scott Shellenberger says police Chief Robert McCullough’s story matches state records.
Baltimore County police chief says $3 parking violation put him on Brady list
Baltimore County Police Chief Robert McCullough said the only reason he’s included on a Brady list is a 1986 parking violation that cost the county $3.
Baltimore County officials remain quiet on police chief. Exec says he has her ‘full support.’
No one in power has offered an explanation for why the county’s top cop appears on a list of officers with potential credibility concerns.
Baltimore County’s police chief is on a list of cops with credibility concerns
Robert McCullough, the Baltimore County Police Department chief, appears on a list of law enforcement officers whose potential credibility concerns require disclosure to defense attorneys if they’re called as a witness in court.
Maryland State Police barrack used ‘candy box’ to encourage more traffic stops
The incident comes three years after leaked documents detailed a quota-like system.
Maryland to close one of Jessup’s prisons
The Maryland Correctional Institution-Jessup will close and 700 men incarcerated at the facility, along with 300 staff, will be transferred to other facilities by June.
Prisoner charged with stabbing 2 correctional officers had earlier killed cellmate
More than two years ago, Daniel Myers, who was behind bars on an assault conviction, stabbed to death 27-year-old Nicholas Delfosse after warning a prison official that he would kill anyone they put in his cell at Jessup Correctional Institution.
Employee accused of improperly inviting ICE to Baltimore courthouse no longer at her job
The corrections department had opened an investigation into the actions of a pretrial services employee.
People keep getting sick to their stomachs at this jail. Baltimore County says that’s normal.
Dr. Kunchok Dorjee‚ an assistant professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, said that numerous reports of infections and symptoms coming from one setting is a clear “red flag.”
Brother of 70-year-old woman killed by police calls for reforming city’s crisis response
The brother of 70-year-old Pytorcarcha Brooks, who was shot and killed by Baltimore Police officers last month, demanded “action” in response to his sister’s death — a tragedy, he said, that should have never taken place.
An ICE officer told an angry crowd he had a warrant before a Baltimore County arrest. He lied.
ICE officers arrested a Honduran man, Adolfo Nimrod Hernandez-Ramos, because they suspected he was undocumented and he lived near their intended target.
‘Indefinite lockdowns’ are keeping prisoners in nearly 24-hour confinement, group says
The Prisoner Rights Information System of Maryland put the state on notice over constitutional violations it's attributing to "indefinite lockdowns" at state prisons.
A Maryland prison has a security fence problem. It nearly fell down again
Compromised and aging fencing at a medium-security prison in Hagerstown has put the facility under strain
‘I’m going hot with a Taser’: Baltimore Police broke down door before shooting 70-year-old
Police on Wednesday released body camera footage depicting the final moments of 70-year-old Pytorcarcha Brooks, who was shot and killed on June 25 in her West Baltimore home by officers.
A Dundalk man died in a Baltimore jail. His family hasn’t received any answers.
Jeffrey Kluver, 35, of Dundalk, died on Sunday while in custody at the Baltimore Central Booking & Intake Center.
This is the most crucial, unanswered question about the West Baltimore police shooting
Baltimore Police’s fatal shooting of a 70-year-old woman highlights the department’s struggles to train its officers in de-escalation.
Baltimore sheriff probes courthouse employee for allegedly inviting ICE to detain someone
ICE agents detained a man at the Clarence M. Mitchell, Jr. Courthouse last week, sparking an investigation of a corrections department employee.
