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| Chief defends Jessup staffing levels |
| By The Washington Post |
| Published: 08/08/2006 |
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JESSUP, MD - Maryland's top public safety official defended her department's management of a maximum-security state prison yesterday where violence has spiked in recent months, flatly rejecting the notion that staffing levels contributed to the recent slaying of a correctional officer there. Mary Ann Saar, secretary of public safety and correctional services, acknowledged that there are 47 vacancies at the facility, the House of Correction in Jessup, but maintained that "staffing was not an issue" in the area where David W. McGuinn was fatally stabbed July 25, allegedly by two inmates. "All of the posts in that cellblock were filled," Saar said, speaking to reporters on a conference call a day before she was to appear in front of Democratic lawmakers in Annapolis... Read more. If link has expired, check the website of the article's original news source. |
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