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| Violent inmates to be removed from Jessup |
| By The Capital Online |
| Published: 09/25/2006 |
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JESSUP, MD - Soon the troubled Maryland House of Corrections in Jessup will no longer hold some of the state's most violent criminals. Officials from the Department of Correctional Services told a General Assembly subcommittee yesterday that the 128-year-old prison is scheduled to become a minimum-security facility. Although they gave no date for the changeover, a leader of the union that represents corrections officers said it would be in January. Inmates currently in maximum-security confinement at Jessup will be sent to the high-tech North Branch Correctional Institute in Cumberland, a new prison that's slated to open in January, according to G. Lawrence Franklin, deputy secretary of the Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services. Read more. If link has expired, check the website of the article's original news source. |
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