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| COs track gang activity |
| By The Jeffersonian |
| Published: 08/28/2006 |
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BALTIMORE COUNTY, MD - Corrections officers at the Baltimore County Detention Center are, for the first time, identifying gang members among inmates and will undergo gang intelligence training next year. "After years of hearing about gangs and being alerted to their presence, they're here," said Jim O'Neill, director of the county's Department of Corrections, which oversees the detention center at the corner of Bosley and Kenilworth avenues in Towson. According to O'Neill, 69 inmates have been identified as gang members since January and 31 gang-related incidents - mostly the use of force to obtain money, food items, a better position in line or telephone privileges - have taken place within the facility in the past eight months. Statistics on the number of gangs represented in the jail were not available...Read more. If link has expired, check the website of the article's original news source. |
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