Prison Staffing Concerns Continue

An inmate death this week at a corrections facility in Western Maryland has brought more focus on staffing shortages. Keith Martucci of the Department of Corrections released a statement that Interim Secretary David Greene has prioritized training, use of body worn cameras, and security audits in the state’s prisons. State Senator Mike McKay who has been working for staffing increases, says the problem needs to be a prime concern…

“At the end of the day, we gotta make sure that the Maryland General Assembly makes public safety a priority so that the funding increase retaining of correctional officers, filling in the steps that they have missed, and then overall making sure that we’re not losing seasoned officer to the federal system by nearby states.”