NEWS
By Gadi Dechter and Greg Garland | March 1, 2007
Five months before a student at the Bowling Brook Preparatory School collapsed and died while being restrained by staff, the school's nurse told the Department of Juvenile Services that she was concerned about the safety of youths held there, according to documents obtained by The Sun. Janis Miller complained in August to the state about the staff's handling of several youths - including one who was badly bruised and scraped while being restrained....
NEWS
March 7, 2007
Turn Bowling Brook into a model facility The tragedy at Bowling Brook Preparatory School and the announcement of the school's closing offer the state a rare opportunity to provide services for youths that it has not offered since it made the costly mistake of prematurely closing the Charles H. Hickey Jr. School ("Youth facility will be closed," March 3). It is time for the state to step up and purchase the Bowling Brook facility and make it a state-of-the-art youth placement center that would be a model for the nation.
NEWS
By Gadi Dechter | January 25, 2007
Sheriff's deputies and state police are investigating the death of a 17-year-old East Baltimore youth who collapsed Tuesday evening while being restrained by staff at a privately run residential program for juvenile offenders. Isaiah Simmons III was pronounced dead at Carroll Hospital Center after paramedics found him in cardiac arrest at the Bowling Brook Preparatory School near Westminster, officials said. Staff at the school attempted to subdue the youth after an outburst in which he allegedly threatened to harm other students and school personnel, according to the Carroll County Sheriff's Office.
NEWS
March 3, 2007
NATIONAL Prosecutors charge astronaut Florida prosecutors charged an astronaut yesterday with trying to kidnap a romantic rival, but they declined to file the attempted murder charge recommended by police. pg 3A Army secretary resigns Army Secretary Francis J. Harvey stepped down yesterday in the fallout from a scandal over substandard conditions for war-wounded soldiers at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. pg 1A MARYLAND Bowling Brook to close Under pressure from the state, officials at Bowling Brook Preparatory School have agreed to close the 50-year-old reformatory where a student died five weeks ago while being restrained by staff.
NEWS
By FROM STAFF REPORTS | January 10, 2007
Still smarting from a two-point home loss to No. 15 City last Thursday, Lake Clifton drilled visiting Walbrook, 73-46, last night by getting "back to the basics," coach Herman Harried said. "Fundamentals and the basics start with defense, and everybody communicated and played great defense tonight," Harried said of his No. 8 Lakers (8-1). Terrence Jones led four Lakers in double digits with 19 points, including five of his team's eight three-pointers. Jason Sharp followed with 17 points.
NEWS
By Rona Kobell | March 3, 2007
Bowling Brook Preparatory School was long regarded as a rare gem in Maryland's troubled juvenile justice system, a place that took in delinquent teens and turned them into well-mannered young men. The residential program for juvenile offenders has been the subject of intense criticism since a youth died there in January, yet some of its supporters were disappointed yesterday to learn that it will close next week. An emotional Del. Donald B. Elliot, a Republican representing parts of Carroll and Frederick counties, called the closing of Bowling Brook a "sad ending to an outstanding institution."
NEWS
By Greg Garland and Gadi Dechter | March 3, 2007
Under pressure from the state, officials at Bowling Brook Preparatory School have agreed to close the 50-year-old reformatory where a student died five weeks ago while being restrained by staff. The privately run residential program in Carroll County issued a statement that it will shut down Friday even as construction crews kept working on an addition funded in part by the state. In Annapolis, Maryland's new juvenile services secretary, Donald W. DeVore, said his agency probably would have acted to revoke Bowling Brook's license if the once highly regarded program for juvenile offenders hadn't decided on its own to close.
NEWS
March 7, 2007
With the Bowling Brook Preparatory School set to close Friday and the death of student Isaiah Simmons ruled a homicide by the state medical examiner, attention shifts to a Carroll County grand jury and possible criminal charges against staff who were restraining the 17-year-old when he died Jan. 23. But the focus shouldn't remain only there. The state Department of Juvenile Services, which licenses and inspects facilities in which it places troubled youths, has as much to answer for as does the residential center in Carroll County.
NEWS
By Greg Garland and Laura McCandlish | March 9, 2007
Gov. Martin O'Malley is asking the legislature to add $21 million to the budget of Maryland's troubled juvenile services system, including money to open the state's first new residential treatment program for youth offenders in more than a decade, officials said yesterday. The state is leaning toward using the site of the former Victor Cullen Academy in Frederick County, which closed in 2002, according to new Juvenile Services Secretary Donald W. DeVore. Acknowledging the problems that have beset large facilities, he said the new program would be smaller than those the state has run in the past.
SPORTS
By Edward Lee | December 8, 1999
While players might enjoy blowout wins, coaches generally dislike them because they fear that their athletes will be lulled into a false sense of security.Bowling Brook coach Daryl Jackson was no different last night -- 24 hours after the Thoroughbreds had drubbed Odenton Christian, 71-7 -- and admitted that he was worried about facing the Maryland School for the Deaf.But senior center Darien Cook scored a game-high 20 points and hauled in eight rebounds as the host Thoroughbreds eased their coach's mind with a 71-26 rout of the Maryland School for the Deaf.