An Alabama courtroom scandal over using generative AI could have implications for decades-old lawsuit over Baltimore jail conditions.

The Banner attempted to reach relatives and attorneys associated with each of the 36 deaths that the audit found should have been ruled as homicides.

The massive audit called for classifying at least 36 in-custody police deaths as homicides, re-opening old wounds and raising new questions in Maryland.

The audit’s implications reach far beyond a finding of 36 wrongfully classified deaths.

The yearslong audit cited racial and pro-police bias in the work of the state’s Office of the Chief Medical Examiner.

The county established the Police Accountability Board three years ago after the General Assembly passed the Police Accountability Act in the wake of George Floyd’s murder by Minneapolis Police in 2021.

The wave of departures threatens to tilt the 8-year-old court case into dysfunction.

Baltimore ended April with five homicides, the lowest monthly total in recent memory.

University of Maryland Medical System’s lawsuit could hinge on a legal debate over what qualifies as a state subcontractor.

The Baltimore Police Department is now facing delays in getting trainees out on the streets due to its reliance on a state-owned firing range.

The vice president of El Salvador denied Sen. Chris Van Hollen a face-to-face visit with a Maryland man wrongly deported last month.

In the decade since Gray’s arrest, Baltimore insists there has been a transformation in policing, but some residents aren’t so sure.

The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration visited two state jails last year and performed “accountability audits” that uncovered violations of the federal Controlled Substances Act.

Despite Maryland’s progressive reputation, the disparities in its criminal justice system are among the worst in the country.

Baltimore is shifting its approach to fighting a burgeoning illicit drug trade, and the City Council is pressing police and Mayor Brandon Scott for a plan.

City attorneys and the U.S. Department of Justice are asking a judge to narrow the scope of the Baltimore Police Department’s federal oversight.

Maintaining Maryland’s prison fences is estimated to cost the state $34 million every two years for the next 30 years.

The state corrections department recorded a discovery rate for weapons in its facilities at about 13 per 100 prisoners and detainees.

People leaving Maryland prisons and state-run Baltimore jails often do so with complex medical needs, ranging from substance use disorder, to hypertension and diabetes.

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.