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IPFS News Link • Criminal Justice System

Maryland’s prison system struggles to control thousands of guards and inmates

• Washington Post
She could have been fired years ago for allegedly letting gang members stage a brutal attack on an inmate in his cell. Instead, corrections officer Antonia Allison was allowed to resign from her job at the Baltimore City Detention Center in 2006 without any mark on her personnel record and then return to the state-run jail nine months later, prison system officials acknowledge.