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| Officials: Officers acted outside scope of authority |
| By abc2news.com - Christian Schaffer |
| Published: 05/01/2013 |
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BALTIMORE (WMAR) - Referring to them as “bad apples,” union officials admit it does appear that at least some of the 13 correctional officers from the Baltimore City Detention Center who were indicted last week acted outside the scope of their authority. Every officer, and in fact every employee at the facility is now under scrutiny. On Tuesday, one week after the announcement that 25 people including those 13 officers had been indicted, AFSCME of Maryland organized a news conference featuring retired correctional officers. Sheila Hill retired after 25 years at the Patuxent Institution in Jessup. She said the coaxing from inmates, starts innocently enough. “(They might say) ‘that's a nice ink pen, looks like it writes good. Can I have that?’ But those kinds of things through training you learn is that 'no' is the answer,” she said, adding that if she’d given the pen to the inmate it would be considered contraband and she could face disciplinary action. Read More. |
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