January 17 - Authorities Search for Escapee From the Maryland Correctional Institution - Hagerstown
January 27 - Four Correctional Officers Suspended In Wake of Killers Escape from MCI-H

February 03 - Eastern Pre-Release Unit Earns 100% Compliance in State Audit
February 04 - One MCTC Officer Charged, Another Resigns Amid Contraband (tobacco) Probe
February 13 - Division of Pretrial Detention and Services to Host Second Annual Youth Empowerment and Awareness Summit on February 19

March 09 - Leadership Change at NBCI - Warden Bobby Shearin to Move Next Door From WCI
March 16 - Maryland Senate Confirms Pat McGee as Director of Maryland Division of Parole and Probation
March 19 - Secretary Gary Maynard to Testify in Support Of House Bill 1387 On Gangs
March 19 - DOC K-9 Officers Win Numerous Honors From U.S. Police Canine Association Unit To Be Honored Saturday, 3/21 in Greenbelt

April 02 - Homicide at Baltimore City Detention Center Detainee Killed and suspect Identified
April 09 - Mens' Mentoring Group Celebrates First Successful Year At Baltimore City Pretrial Facility - "Iron Sharpens Iron" Anniversary at Jail Industries Building April 13
April 09 - Hagerstown DOC Prisons to Test Emergency Siren April 14 and 15 - Alert System Part of Enhanced Emergency Notification System For the Community
April 16 - DPSCS and DOC Praised for Unprecedented Work Rooting out Corruption in Wake of Federal Sting
April 16 - Inmate Allegedly Killed by Cellmate at WCI
April 21 - Hagerstown and Jessup Honor Guard Teams Tie For First In Inaugural DPSCS Honor Guard Competition
April 23 - Victims' Rights Advocate Roberta Roper to Speak At DPSCS

May 01 - Public Safety and Correctional Employee Appreciation Week is May 3-9
May 07 - MCIH Veteran-Inmates To Hold Walk-a-Thon Benefiting Fisher House Rehabilitation Center For Disabled and Wounded Soldiers
May 07 - Hundreds of DPSCS Employees to be Honored During Annual Employee Appreciation Event TOMORROW, Friday, May 8 at Blobs Park in Jessup
May 12 - DPSCS To Dedicate Rescue Farm for Retired Racehorses Thursday, May 14 at 10 a.m. on Slacks Rd. in Sykesville - Partnership with Thoroughbred Retirement Foundation - Inmates Built the Barn and Will Care For the Horses
May 12 - DOC Intelligence Leads to Federal Murder Indictments Thanks to Modified Cell Phone
May 15 - Eastern Pre-Release Inmates Nearing Completion of Third Habitat For Humanity House in Federalsburg - Partnership Fits in With Secretary Maynard's - Expanded Public Safety Works Campaign
May 15 - Fast Action BY DOC Intelligence Unit and Contract Food Worker Leads to Major Contraband Interdiction At Metropolitan Transition Center in Baltimore
May 18 - Secretary Maynard, His Chief of Staff, and DOCs Director of Programs and Services To Speak At Goodwill Industries Panel Discussion On Re-Entry in Frederick Tonight
May 18 - Next Project For WCI Inmates- Bear-Proof Enclosures to Protect Campers Food at Deep Creek Lake
May 19 - Governor Signs Bill Allowing Parole and Probation Faster Action on Warrant-Issuing
May 21 - Tree-Planting Blitz Takes DPSCS Over 200,000 Tree Mark
May 22 - Baltimore City Detention Center Shakedown Yields Significant Contraband Seizure
May 28 - Federal Indictment of 42 Alleged Bloods Members Shows Further Cooperation between DPSCS and Law Enforcement
May 29 - Annual Division of Correction Tug of War and Walk/Run To Benefit Special Olympics is Tuesday, June 2
May 29 - Another Milestone for Governor's Smart, Green & Growing and DPSCS Public Safety Works Campaigns

June 04 - Cumberland Prisons Will Contribute To Day of Caring and Sharing
June 08 - DOC Sniper Team Places Seventh in Elite Competition
June 11 - Two Inmates Charged With Making Bomb Threats
June 12 - DPSCS Secretary Honored by Middle Atlantic States Correctional Association
June 24 - Lethal Injection Regulations Moving Forward
June 24 - Graduation Marks First Year of MCE Re-entry Program

July 07 - DPSCS Donates 125 Tons of Stones To Help Restore Structures at Antietam National Battlefield
July 15 - Secretary Gary Maynard Testifies Before Congress In Support of Bill That Would Allow Jamming Cell Phones in Prisons
July 31 - DPSCS Releases End of FY09 Report

August 18 - DPSCS' Claude Nelson Honored With D.A.R.E.'s Lifetime Achievement Award
August 21 - Pretrial Commissioner Take On New Role After Three Years
August 26 - DPSCS To Close Herman L. Toulson Correctional Facility
August 27 - Correctional Officer Found Shot to Death In Baltimore City

September 01 - DPSCS to Test Cell Phone Detection Technology
September 03 - First of its Kind Cell Phone Detection Technology Demonstration Held Today in Vacant Maryland Prison
September 04 - Division of Correction Walk-Off Notification
September 05 - The Center for Eating Disorders at Sheppard Pratt and Girl Scouts Beyond Bars bring Love Your Tree program to MCIW inmates and daughters
September 11 - Emergency Number Systems Board's Annual 9-1-1 Day of Celebration
September 14 - Another Milestone for Inmate Oyster Reclamation Effort
September 14 - Incarcerated Veterans of Roxbury Holding First Ever POW-MIA Remembrance Ceremony Behind Bars
September 28 - Two Hagerstown Prison Veterans' Groups Raise Nearly $3,500 for Charity in Walk-A-Thons
September 28 - WCI-North Branch Correctional Team Wins Award At Annual Law Enforcement Awareness Day

October 01 - On First Day of New Law, Parole and Probation Executes Six Warrants, Four For Violent Offenders
October 01 - Sentencing Commission public hearing
October 15 - Detainee Stabbed to Death At Baltimore City Detention Center
October 17 - World-Renowned Pianist To Perform At Maryland Correctional Institution For Women
October 20 - Baltimore Woman Arrested For Allegedly Attempting to Deliver Drugs To RCI Inmates
October 21 - Maryland Police and Correctional Training Commissions Announce 24th D.A.R.E. Officer Training Class Graduation
October 21 - Inmate Briefly Hospitalized After Assault at WC
October 23 - Division of Parole and Probation Halloween Initiative Will Target Child Sex Offenders
October 24 - National Association of Women Judges and MCIW looking for Offender Re-entry Conference Sponsors
October 24 - Maryland's 2nd Annual Comprehensive Re-Entry Conference for Female Inmates
October 28 - DPSCS to Unveil Statewide Community Escape Alert System
October 28 - DPSCS Announces Statewide Community Escape Notification System
October 29 - Keeping a Thanksgiving Tradition Going

November 04 - DPSCS Announces $1.1 Million Security Equipment Purchase
November 09 - Inmate Stabbed at Eastern Correctional Institution, Dies From Wounds
November 10 - MD. Correctional Enterprises Inmates to Launder 5,000 Donated Bras as Part of Breast Cancer Charity Campaign
November 12 - DPSCS Correctional Facilities Receive First Doses of H1N1 Vaccine
November 12 - Former Correctional Officer Pleads Guilty on Drug Charges
November 16 - WCI Inmates to Help Clear Trail To B-52 Bomber Crash Site
November 16 - Annual Patuxent Quilt Show Gives Women Inmates A Chance to Give Back to Society
November 23 - Denise Gelsinger Named Facility Administrator For Harold E. Donnel Pre-Release Unit At MCTC
November 24 - JCI and MTC Correctional Officers Deliver Thanksgiving Baskets to Baltimore Families
November 30 - DPSCS IIU and MCI Intel Investigating Two Unrelated Stabbings This Past Weekend

December 01 - Metropolitan Transition Center Employees To Throw Another Breakfast With Santa Party for Elementary Students
December 01 - Maryland State Police and DPSCS IIU Investigating Apparent Inmate Homicide At Western Correctional Institution
December 03 - WCI To Donate 1,000th Inmate-Made Pillowcase To ConKerr Cancer Foundation
December 04 - DPSCS Fall Tree Planting Underway
December 07 - Hotel Shooting Suspect Not Under Probation Supervision
December 08 - Maryland Community Crime Prevention Institute Sponsors 30th Annual Governor's Crime Prevention Awards
December 10 - Christmas Party for needy families at "Supermax" Friday, Dec. 11
December 10 - DPSCS Correctional Officer Among Those Honored at 30th Annual Governor's Crime Prevention Awards
December 10 - Inmate Charged With Assaulting Correctional Officer at North Branch
December 17 - DPSCS Statement on Correctional Officer Terminations at Baltimore Central Booking and Intake Center
December 18 - DPSCS Employees Spread Holiday Cheer Statewide
December 21 - New Commissioner of Maryland Division of Pretrial Detention and Services Named
December 21 - The Ravens Played Thanks in Part To Tremendous DOC Inmate Snow-Clearing Effort
December 21 - ECI Inmates' Flintstones Float is a Big Hit at Shore Parades