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| Md. state police suspend use of inmate work crews after thefts |
| By Associated Press |
| Published: 05/24/2004 |
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The Maryland State Police have temporarily stopped using crews of state prison inmates to clean police barracks after discovering several of them stole drugs and cash from an evidence-storage area, the agency said last Wednesday. Richard C. Harris, 45, was charged with burglary, theft and conspiracy for breaking into a property room last Saturday at the state police barracks in Salisbury and stealing cocaine, marijuana and money, according to a state police news release. Harris was an inmate at the Poplar Hill Pre-Release Unit in Quantico. He was arrested last Wednesday upon his release by the state Division of Correction after completing his sentence for a previous crime, said Maj. Greg Shipley of the state police. He did not know what Harris had been convicted of. Charges were also to be filed against two other inmates from Poplar Hill, who have been transferred to the medium-security Eastern Correctional Institution in Westover while the investigation continues. State police said they do not believe the missing evidence will hinder any criminal cases. For decades, inmates nearing the end of their sentences have cleaned state police buildings and worked on the grounds of state police facilities. But Lt. Col. Edwin Lashley, chief of the state police operations bureau, suspended last Tuesday the use of low-security inmates in work details at barracks "while a complete review of policies and procedures is conducted." |
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