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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

And now to Baltimore, where Maryland governor Larry Hogan announced today that he's shutting down the Baltimore City Men's Detention Center. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING) LARRY HOGAN: 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 ...