Maryland Prisons Hit a Decade High in Homicides. The State Just Moved 700 More Inmates In.
Inmate killings surged 75 percent last year — the worst in ten years. The Moore administration’s response was to close a facility and consolidate prisoners into the same maximum-security prisons where most of the violence occurred. By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Maryland state prisons recorded 14 inmate homicides in 2025 — the highest total in at least a decade — and three more have already…










