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Two detainees at the Baltimore City Detention Center were found stabbed yesterday in the same cell, and one died of his injuries, authorities said. Correctional officiers found the men, covered in blood, about 9:30 a.m., said Karen V. Poe, a spokeswoman for the Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services. The men were taken to Johns Hopkins Hospital, where one died at 10:10 a.m. The other inmate was listed in critical condition, officials said. Both men were 19 years old. The man who died was awaiting trial on murder, assault and handgun charges.

Maryland Public Safety Secretary Mary Ann Saar yesterday named Howard Ray Jr. acting commissioner for the Division of Pretrial Detention and Services. Ray, the former deputy of the division, succeeds William J. Smith, who resigned in August. He will oversee daily operations at the Baltimore City Detention Center and Central Booking and Intake Center.

Wounded man charged with multiple offenses A man who was shot in the face after allegedly pointing a sawed-off shotgun at a Baltimore police officer June 6 in the Waverly neighborhood has been released from a hospital and charged with multiple offenses, police said. Darryl Haskins Jr., 24, of the 7400 block of Rutherford Green Circle in Woodlawn sped away in a maroon Chevrolet Monte Carlo after being stopped by an officer on Greenmount Avenue and led several officers in a pursuit, police said.

Police Blotter is a sampling of crimes from police reports in Baltimore and Baltimore County. Baltimore Central Homicide/arrest -- Members of the Regional Warrant Apprehension Task Force arrested James Ron Dorsey, 29, of no fixed address, at a house in the 2400 block of Druid Hill Ave. Wednesday on a warrant charging him with first-degree murder. Dorsey is charged with stabbing Curtris Lomax, 23, of the 2700 block of Round Road in Cherry Hill on March 7 while Lomax tried to break up a fight between two females, one of them a friend of the accused, in the 1200 block of W. North Ave. Lomax died a short time later at Maryland Shock Trauma Center.

Taking up the cause of public access to government information, Baltimore officials filed a lawsuit yesterday against the state prison system, demanding an uncensored version of a consultant's report about problems at the Central Booking and Intake Center. The city solicitor's office filed the unusual challenge in Circuit Court in Baltimore, citing the state's Public Information Act. The city argues that state prison officials, who operate the center, have "improperly and unlawfully withheld a public document by redacting so much of a report as to be tantamount to withholding it."

State prison officials have given a judge and the city solicitor a heavily redacted consultant's report on problems at the state-run Central Booking and Intake Center in Baltimore, making it impossible to determine what, if any, remedies were recommended. The Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services, which runs the booking center, whited-out five of the 10 pages in the report. Officials said the blanked-out portions deal with their "internal decision-making" process for the center, which has been criticized for being crowded and inefficiently managed.

A Baltimore Circuit Court judge is demanding that state prison officials explain why a teenager convicted of a felony is being given what appears to be preferential treatment by being allowed to serve his sentence in a city lockup rather than in a state prison. Judge Evelyn O. Cannon did not oversee the case of Moshe Khaver, a 19-year-old who pleaded guilty last fall to running over and nearly killing another teen during a drug dispute. But in a blunt, three-page letter, Cannon confronts issues about race and privilege and asks whether those factors can translate into more lenient treatment for some.