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Gov. Wes Moore on Friday announced that the state corrections department is forgiving about $13 million in unpaid parole debts owed by more than 6,700 formerly incarcerated people.

One of Maryland's biggest unions has been sounding the alarm on state-run prisons. Is anyone listening?

Baltimore jail officials lost track of nearly 92,500 methadone pills — controlled substances that carry a high street value — over a three-month period, investigators with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration found during an audit earlier this year.

The Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services said in a statement that officers at Western Correctional Institution in Cumberland were “alerted to smoke coming from one of the tiers in the facility” and responded to a 43-year-old prisoner's cell. That prisoner was airlifted Tuesday night by Maryland State Police to a nearby hospital “for treatment of his injuries.”

The state has devoted significant legal resources toward getting out of a four-year-old settlement agreement.

A 14-year-old boy was shot and killed late Saturday night in Aberdeen, according to Aberdeen Police.

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A prisoner at North Branch Correctional Institution in Cumberland stabbed two correctional officers, seriously wounding them, on Friday morning, according to the state corrections department.

Known as a fierce tenants' rights advocate and the first woman ever elected to serve as president of the Baltimore City Council, Mary Pat Clarke died on Sunday morning, according to sources close to the former councilwoman.

Five-year-old Zona Byrd’s parents face first-degree murder and child abuse charges.