This is WEEKEND EDITION from NPR News. I'm Scott Simon. Twenty-five people were indicted in Baltimore this week, 13 of them prison guards in a story that involves gangs, bribes, drugs and sex - and it ...

Juveniles in Baltimore’s Youth Detention Center were forced to endure weeks without central heating after the facility’s system malfunctioned between late November and mid-December. The facility’s 60 ...

Crammed into a cell where men stood shoulder to shoulder, Jamien Palmer languished 22 hours without eating or sleeping at Baltimore’s Booking and Intake Center — after a judge had ordered his release.

The Washington Post is reporting that, according to an indictment filed this week, 13 female corrections officers essentially handed over control of a Baltimore jail to gang leaders. The head of the ...

THE MESS at the Baltimore City Detention Center, where corrections officers allegedly colluded (and had sex) with inmates amid a wide-ranging conspiracy to smuggle drugs and other contraband into the ...

Gov. Larry Hogan says he has ordered the immediate closure of the Baltimore City Detention Center, which a federal probe revealed in 2013 as being riddled with corruption, from smuggling to sex ...