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| Hiring guards as young as 18 may have fueled Baltimore jail scandal |
| By washingtonpost.com - Annys Shin & Aaron C. Davis |
| Published: 06/19/2013 |
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The scandal at the Baltimore City Detention Center, where 13 female guards were indicted in April for essentially handing over control of the jail to gang members, may be partly the legacy of a short-lived state experiment of hiring corrections officers as young as 18. Seven of the 13 officers accused of smuggling drugs and cellphones for the Black Guerilla Family (BGF) were barely out of high school when they became corrections officers, court records and information provided by corrections officials show. Youth and inexperience may have marked some officers as easier prey for the highly organized prison gang, corrections experts said, thus adding age to a broken disciplinary system, ineffective training and poor supervision as factors making the detention center fertile ground for corruption. Read More. |
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