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Inmates Run City Detention Center
State officials pledged to launch a widespread investigation into corruption at the Baltimore City Detention Center in the wake of the federal indictment of 25 people, including 13 female corrections officers, for a racketeering enterprise that involved drug trafficking, money laundering and sex—all centered inside the jail.
The scheme involved cash payments, sex and access to fancy cars, federal prosecutors said April 23.
The federal grand jury, in an indictment handed up April 2 but sealed until April 23, painted a lurid picture of the jail in the grip of the Black Guerilla Family, a nationwide gang operating “in prisons and on the streets of major cities throughout the U.S.,” the indictment said.
According to prosecutors, 13 female corrections officers essentially handed over control of a Baltimore jail to the gang leaders in exchange for access to luxury cars and money, prosecutors said.
Del. Curtis Anderson (D-Baltimore) said the governor needs to address matters.
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