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.

The state has devoted significant legal resources toward getting out of a four-year-old settlement agreement.

That prisoner was airlifted Tuesday night by Maryland State Police to a nearby hospital “for treatment of his injuries.”

Baltimore jail officials lost track of nearly 92,500 methadone pills — controlled substances that carry a high street value — over a three-month period.

One of Maryland’s biggest unions has been sounding the alarm on state-run prisons. Is anyone listening?

Gov. Wes Moore announced that the Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services will cancel millions of unpaid parole debts for more than 6,700 people.