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In Surprise Move, Md. Closes Jessup Prison, Transfers Inmates

Operating with extraordinary secrecy, Maryland corrections officials over the past several weeks transferred all 850 inmates out of the Maryland House of Correction in Jessup, effectively closing the notoriously violent 129-year-old maximum-security prison and ending its decades-long history of riots, fights, escapes and attacks on correctional officers....
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By Rosalind S. Helderman

 
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