A coalition of civil rights groups is suing the Harford County Sheriff’s Office, claiming that the agency failed to properly assess jail detainees’ suicide risk and aggravated their mental health conditions.
A report dated Dec. 4, 2025, details dire conditions at the since-evacuated Maryland Reception, Diagnostic and Classification Center in downtown Baltimore.
Unannounced inspections of the Baltimore City Juvenile Justice Center last year revealed a persistent rodent infestation, malfunctioning air conditioning, and a paraplegic child housed in the infirmary who was left sitting in his own waste.
Baltimore Police released a year-end report Thursday celebrating everything from improvements in hiring and retaining officers to higher clearance rates.
Thirteen incarcerated people have been killed by other prisoners this year, state officials said, marking the highest annual total in at least a decade.
Baltimore is on track to end 2025 with its lowest homicide total in 48 years, with fewer than 150 killings expected, marking a significant decline since 2022.
The family of Bilal “BJ” Abdullah, an arabber killed by Baltimore Police this summer, are condemning the findings of state investigators who cleared the officers of any wrongdoing.
But contrary to the messaging from the president and his team, most of those arrested this year had no criminal history, according to a Banner analysis of newly released federal data.
A former lieutenant at the Eastern Correctional Institution in Westover has been found guilty for his participation in a cover-up after one of his junior officers physically abused a prisoner.
Baltimore City firefighters have contained a blaze at Falkenhan’s Hardware, a staple in Hampden that sits on the edge of the Miracle on 34th Street holiday lights display.
For years, the Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services has declined to explain publicly the circumstances leading up to Javarick Gantt’s murder.
Criminal justice reform advocates say the long stretches of forced solitude in Maryland are known to cause mental health issues and equate the conditions to torture.
Gregory Turnipseed, a 14-year veteran of the city transportation department, died last week about a month after trying to intervene in an argument over a parking spot in downtown Baltimore.
State prosecutors and corrections officials on Monday announced 10 criminal indictments stemming from three separate alleged smuggling operations at the Jessup Correctional Institution in Anne Arundel County.