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Bills will strengthen prison guard investigations
By washingtonexaminer.com
Published: 04/16/2014

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Legislative efforts to improve prison security were overshadowed this year by marijuana and minimum wage bills, but supporters say they will help prevent another high-profile scandal like the Black Guerrilla Family case at the Baltimore City Detention Center.

However, representatives of the correctional officers' union worry that the bills, which give correctional officials significantly more power to investigate staff members, will erode the due-process rights of guards.

Gov. Martin O'Malley signed several of the corrections bills into law Monday morning. They make it easier to suspend officers without pay, to charge those caught with contraband and to test job applicants with polygraphs.

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