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October 7, 2007
Anne Arundel Developer eyed for BRAC help Anne Arundel County Executive John R. Leopold told Lt. Gov. Anthony G. Brown and the O'Malley administration's base closing and realignment subcabinet last week that he and the commander of Fort Meade are talking now about whether the developer of a 2 million-square-foot office complex on one corner of the post will help pay for road widenings and signal upgrades to handle increased traffic from the project....
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By Greg Garland | January 14, 2007
Maryland Juvenile Services Secretary Kenneth C. Montague Jr. traveled out of state at least 29 times during his four years in office to attend conferences or retreats and tour juvenile facilities-- even as criticism mounted here that his agency and its programs were a shambles. The trips to Miami Beach, Phoenix, San Francisco, Las Vegas, Nashville, New Orleans, Denver, San Diego and other cities are described in records recently released by the state in response to a Public Information Act request filed by The Sun. As Montague took to the road, the agency he headed was being pilloried by federal investigators and an independent state monitor for unacceptably high levels of violence, severe overcrowding and other problems in juvenile detention centers.
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By Michael Dresser | November 6, 1999
In the wake of a string of security lapses and incidents of abuse at state juvenile justice facilities, Gov. Parris N. Glendening is dispatching a team of management experts to improve the troubled Department of Juvenile Justice.Mike Morrill, Glendening's chief press spokesman, said the governor and Lt. Gov. Kathleen Kennedy Townsend decided to send in the team after hearing "a few little rumblings" about problems in the department.The experts -- known unofficially in state government circles as a "SWAT team" -- will spend an estimated two to four months assessing the operations and procedures of the department, Morrill said.
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By NEW YORK TIMES NEWS SERVICE | August 12, 1998
JONESBORO, Ark. -- Just before a judge remanded 14-year-old Mitchell Johnson and 12-year-old Andrew Golden into juvenile detention for a middle school shooting that killed a teacher and four girls, the older boy offered a childlike excuse.He said he did not mean to do it."I thought we were going to shoot over their heads," said the trembling Johnson youth, who pleaded guilty in an adjudication hearing -- the juvenile court equivalent of a trial -- in the Craighead County Courthouse yesterday, on his 14th birthday.
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By NEW YORK TIMES NEWS SERVICE | March 28, 1998
JONESBORO, Ark. -- As her family, neighbors and classmates said goodbye to 12-year-old Paige Ann Herring in the first of two funerals yesterday, a man in blue jeans stood in the foyer of the packed Farmer's Union funeral home, his arms wrapped tightly around his weeping 7-year-old daughter.A tiny gold cross glinted in the neckline of the girl's simple blue dress, one more sign of the faith this city has, and will need, as the funerals continue into the weekend.Later yesterday, some of those same mourners moved a few blocks over to Emerson Funeral Home to hear another preacher, another prayer, in the funeral of 11-year-old Natalie Brooks.
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By Carl T. Rowan NTC | August 14, 1998
WASHINGTON -- We are a very confused and troubled society when it comes to crime and punishment, especially when childhood or mental illness are involved.We go to inexplicable lengths to protect a 13-year-old who commits cold-blooded murder, but we electrocute a 35-year-old who has the mental faculties of a 5-year-old. It is as though body size is a mitigating or aggravating factor in major crimes.Megan's lawIn some places, such as Arkansas, we put a teen-age killer in "juvenile detention," but decree that the state must let him walk free at age 21. That is probably like sending a youngster to a criminal's finishing school, then giving him a shingle under which he can practice his craft in adulthood.
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By Dennis O'Brien | March 7, 1995
Three youths were committed to juvenile detention facilities yesterday for their role in the beating of a school librarian during a brawl at Meade High School last fall.Judge Eugene M. Lerner found the youths delinquent -- the juvenile equivalent of guilty -- in February on charges of assault with intent to maim in the Sept. 30 attack on Donald Gobbi, 50, of Odenton.The youths, two 17 and one 16, will be supervised by the Juvenile Services Administration indefinitely and could be in detention facilities until they turn 21.The attack occurred as Mr. Gobbi tried to break up a fight between white and black students.
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By Kate Shatzkin | December 20, 1995
Two teen-age boys stare with large, questioning eyes through the window of their cell at the Cheltenham Youth Facility They have been "socially separated" from the rest of their unit for fighting a territorial battle bech other.Before the night is over, the room likely will be filled with five boys, sleeping on cots in a space of perhaps 180 square feet, with barely walking space between the beds.On an average day at this juvenile detention center in southern Prince George's County, about 250 teen-age boys -- 60 percent of them from Baltimore -- spend as little as 1 1/2 hours in school, sleep in tiny, bare cells built to hold a maximum of 167 boys, and wait.
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March 22, 1995
Two Meade High School students pleaded guilty yesterday in Anne Arundel Juvenile Court to charges stemming from a brawl in a hallway last fall that injured the school librarian.A 16-year-old pleaded guilty to battery and a 15-year-old to disturbing school activities.Donald Gobbi, the 50-year-old librarian, was knocked to the floor and kicked in the head, back and legs several times after he rushed to intervene, according to testimony. The brawl occurred in a second-floor hallway about 10:30 a.m. Sept.
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By Norris P. West | January 29, 1994
Concerned about plans to bring a juvenile detention center to its neighborhood, Children's Hospital has arranged a meeting of government officials, business and community leaders in the Cold Spring Lane-Greenspring Avenue area.The meeting is set for 1 p.m. today in the hospital's Bowles Auditorium. The hospital is at 3825 Greenspring Ave.City and state officials are considering a site on Cold Spring Lane between the Jones Falls Expressway and Greenspring Avenue for a juvenile justice center, which would include a courthouse and a 144-bed detention facility.