Trans prisoners make up a fraction of Maryland’s incarcerated population, but nearly half of its settlement payouts last year. Efforts to reform policy have been slow.

Drugs? Staffing? Lack of air conditioning? Maryland corrections officials and union members differ on reasons behind surge in violence.

State inspectors have cited the Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services with health and safety violations after parole agent’s killing.

A specialized wing of the attorney general’s office launched 22 investigations and its first prosecution in 2024.

Trayvon Ocain, 33, died in a facility that is under scrutiny for its health care system. His family wants answers.

Baltimore Police say 201 people were killed in 2024, with more than 400 people shot and wounded.

Maryland has spent nearly half a million dollars on a private law firm to try and exit a decades-old lawsuit. So far, it has little to show for it.

The plaintiffs challenging Baltimore jail health care, led by the ACLU’s National Prison Project, have nominated three of their own selections to become medical monitor.

The impending closure of Baltimore’s original community-led police oversight board has raised new questions. It may also present new opportunities.

A law firm’s request for records about plans to build a center for incarcerated women has led to a year-and-a-half-long saga that recently culminated in a lawsuit.

The Baltimore Police Department’s achievements come amid an uncertain backdrop in the federal monitoring of local police departments.

Black Marylanders make up about 30% of the state’s population but more than 70% of the people incarcerated in state prisons, the most pronounced racial disparity of its kind in the country, and a dubious distinction that criminal justice reformers say exemplifies the state’s regressive policies around mass incarceration.

The U.S. Department of Justice is helping to transform the Baltimore Police Department. Will that continue under the second Donald Trump administration?

The Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services did not sufficiently check in on its health contractors to ensure that patients were getting timely care and having their complaints investigated, according to a new state audit.

For the first time since 2011, Baltimore could see fewer than 200 homicies, Baltimore Police Department Commissioner Richard Worley told the Police Accountability Board Monday night.

Of the roughly 1,000 cases the committee has reviewed, nearly half of them were received within 15 days of their expiration, according to city data.

Five-year-old Zona Byrd’s parents face first-degree murder and child abuse charges.

The first woman elected to serve as president of Baltimore City Council, Mary Pat Clarke died on Sunday morning, according to sources close to her.

A prisoner at North Branch Correctional Institution in Cumberland allegedly stabbed two correctional officers and injured other staff members, according to the corrections department.

Jai’den Alexander Winchester was pronounced dead at the scene.