Legal Commentary

Are Criminals Running the Jail in Prince George's County?

By TChris

TalkLeft has been following (here and here and here) the murder of Ronnie White in the Prince George's County jail after he ran over and killed a police officer. The Washington Post today takes a long look at the troubled jail and its troubled staff of jailers.

In the past seven months, jail officials have suspended at least six officers, some of whom were charged criminally. Two were suspended for allegedly smuggling cellphones into the jail for inmates; two more were accused of having sex with prisoners. One was suspended after he was charged with robbing two teenagers at gunpoint in Charles County, another after he allegedly assaulted his wife.

Another officer "was convicted of second-degree assault after he beat a woman, breaking her rib." Still another was ordered out of his house after he threatened to kill his wife. Then there's the officer who "was jailed this week after being convicted in Charles County of armed robbery." He's been suspended without pay.

Full post as published by TalkLeft on July 25, 2008 (boomark / email).