|
JESSUP, Md. (AP) - Citing inefficiency and concern over employee safety, state officials closed a 128-year-old maximum security prison on Saturday after secretly moving its inmates to other prisons over the past few weeks, according to a newspaper report.
Public Safety and Correctional Services Secretary Gary D. Maynard said he began working on plans to close the Maryland House of Correction in Jessup hours after a correctional officer, Edouardo F. Edouazin, was stabbed there on March 2, the (Baltimore) Sun reported Sunday.
Edouazin lived, but others involved in attacks at the prison haven't been so lucky. Last summer, three prisoners were killed and a guard was stabbed to death by two inmates.
|