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Inmate killings surged 75 percent last year — the worst in ten years. The Moore administration’s response was to close a facility and consolidate prisoners into the same maximum-security prisons where most of the violence occurred. By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Maryland state prisons recorded 14 inmate homicides in 2025 — the highest total in at least a decade — and three more have already…

By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Since Wes Moore took office in January 2023, Maryland’s prison system has recorded at least 135 inmate deaths inside state correctional facilities. One hundred and thirty-five. That figure comes from data compiled through the federal Death in Custody Reporting Act, tracked by the Maryland State Police and the Governor’s Office of Crime Prevention and Policy. It…

By MDBayNews Staff Maryland’s state prison system recorded 68 inmate deaths in calendar year 2025, a sharp and deeply troubling increase that has drawn renewed scrutiny of conditions inside facilities run by the Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services. The data, reported under the federal Death in Custody Reporting Act and cited by the Baltimore Sun, represents nearly…