Division Of Correction

Guards found an inmate with stab wounds in the neck and chest about 8: 25 p.m. yesterday in a recreation yard at the Maryland House of Correction in Jessup, a state Division of Correction spokesman said.The inmate, 37, whose name was not released, was in stable condition at Maryland Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore, spokesman Dave Towers said.No arrest had been made and no weapon was found, he said. Inmates will be confined to their cells during an investigation, he said.Pub Date: 8/26/97

An inmate at the Maryland House of Correction in Jessup was stabbed and seriously injured in his cell yesterday, a state correctional official said.Correctional officers found the inmate bleeding in his cell about 4:40 p.m. as prisoners were being let out of their cells for dinner, said Maxine Eldridge, a spokeswoman for the state Division of Correction.Ms. Eldridge said the inmate was taken to the prison's medical unit, then transferred to Maryland Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore, where he was in serious condition last night with stab wounds in the chest.

An article in Friday's Carroll County section of The Sun incorrectly stated the relationship between the Central Laundry Facility and Springfield Hospital Center. The Central Laundry Facility is operated by the state's Division of Correction and is not part of the hospital.The Sun regrets the error.

An article in Friday's Carroll County section of The Sun incorrectly stated the relationship between the Central Laundry Facility and Springfield Hospital Center. The Central Laundry Facility is operated by the state's Division of Correction and is not part of the hospital.The Sun regrets the error.A 40-year-old man serving 22 years for armed robbery and burglary escaped from custody at the Central Laundry Facility at Springfield State Hospital in Sykesville Wednesday afternoon.Randal Bryson, who has been confined to the Division of Correction since March 1985, was returning to the facility about 4:30 p.m. He had been taken to the House of Correction in Jessup for medical treatment, and bolted from a van when it returned to the Springfield parking lot, correction officials said.

A 29-year-old convicted robber escaped from a correctional officer yesterday while being escorted across a Baltimore street to a downtown prison.Bryan M. Jeffreys was being walked back to the Baltimore City Correctional Center from a job-training program about 3 p.m. when he broke free from the officer and ran south on Greenmount Avenue, said Maxine Eldridge, a spokeswoman for the Division of Correction.Jeffreys was serving a 13-year sentence for assault and robbery, Ms. Eldridge said. His last known address was in the 600 block of Bouldin St. in Baltimore.

An assistant warden of the Eastern Correctional Institution in Somerset County has been fired after a 24-year career in the state prison system.Division of Correction spokeswoman Maxine Eldridge said Lewis E. Williams' employment would end Dec. 23. She refused to say whether he had been terminated, although she acknowledged that he "received notice" last Friday."

An article yesterday about inmate escapes from the Baltimore City Correctional Center incorrectly described the record of a prisoner who fled on Sept. 2. He had been convicted of battery and a handgun violation.The Sun regrets the errors.Three inmates ran away from correctional officers outside the Baltimore City Correctional Center yesterday afternoon, the second escape by inmates assigned to the minimum-security institution this month.The prisoners were in a group of eight being escorted by two officers from the Greenmount Avenue prison to the nearby Occupational Skills Training Center when they bolted south on Greenmount just before 1 p.m., said Division of Correction spokeswoman Maxine Eldridge.

Terrence G. Johnson, convicted of killing a Prince George's County police officer in 1979, says state prison officials denied him parole in 1991 because they were overly concerned about the negative publicity that might accompany his release.Lawyers for the Maryland Parole Commission say no one ever promised Johnson that he would be paroled before his mandatory release date, July 6, 1997.Now, a hearing before Anne Arundel Circuit Judge Warren B. Duckett Jr. could end tomorrow with a decision to release Johnson.

Despite having a disability that keeps him from firing a gun safely, Kim Johnson worked for 14 years at the Maryland House of Correction in Jessup. Now the Division of Correction wants him to stay at home, with pay, for that reason.Mr. Johnson and the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, which represents 1,700 of the state's 5,000 correctional officers, charge that the division is violating the federal Americans with Disabilities Act by phasing out employees like Mr. Johnson.

Folorunso Eddo says he made a simple request of his employers at the Maryland Division of Correction: Don't send him back to the same guard post where six inmates jumped him and stabbed him nearly to death.But he says prison officials refused and fired him instead.Now, says Mr. Eddo, a 34-year-old father of two, he has two kinds of nightmares: the ones that haunt his sleep at night as he relives the attack and the ones in the day as he searches for work.Prison officials say they have offered Mr. Eddo other positions where he wouldn't have direct contact with inmates, but that he has refused them.