20 charged in Md. prison bribery scheme; guards accused of smuggling contraband in exchange for cash, favors
By Lynh Bui and Lynh Bui Reporter focusing on public safety and criminal justice Email Bio Follow Peter Hermann Peter Hermann Reporter covering crime, specifically the D.C. police department Email Bio Follow April 16 at 6:07 PM Twenty people have been indicted on racketeering charges in a broad corruption ring that involved corrections officers accepting bribes, kickbacks and sexual favors to smuggle contraband to inmates at a Maryland prison, federal prosecutors said Tuesday.
“The indictment details a truly troubling level of corruption that permeated the correctional facility,” Robert K. Hur, the U.S. attorney for Maryland, said in announcing the 11-count indictment. The latest indictment out of Jessup is part of a larger string of corruption cases involving the Maryland corrections system. Federal authorities in 2016 prosecuted about 50 inmates and officers in a bribery and drug conspiracy case out of the state’s largest prison, the Eastern Correctional Institution on the Eastern Shore. At the Baltimore City Detention Center, also run by the state, more than 40 people were convicted in a similar corruption scheme in 2013. Gov.
Hur credited prison officials with cooperating with the investigation, saying that “they share our commitment to rooting out corruption.” The inmates charged were Corey Alston, 29; Jerrard Bazemore, 34; Irving Hernandez, 25; Todd Holloway, 34; Schvel Mack, 29; Larnell Megginson, 38; and Tavon Price, 35.
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