Warden

The retirement of Elwood Dehaven after 32 years of service to the Harford County Sheriff's Office leaves a vacancy that Sheriff L. Jesse Bane says he is in no hurry to fill, that of warden for the county jail. Warden is one of those iconic posts in American lore. Plenty of images from Hollywood central casting come to mind when the title is raised, but the reality of such jobs is generally far from the movie images we sometimes have of them. Technically speaking, the sheriff's plan is to put a deputy with the rank of major, Maj. Michael Capasso, in charge of the Harford County Detention Center.

The retirement of Elwood Dehaven after 32 years of service to the Harford County Sheriff's Office leaves a vacancy that Sheriff L. Jesse Bane says he is in no hurry to fill, that of warden for the county jail. Warden is one of those iconic posts in American lore. Plenty of images from Hollywood central casting come to mind when the title is raised, but the reality of such jobs is generally far from the movie images we sometimes have of them. Technically speaking, the sheriff's plan is to put a deputy with the rank of major, Maj. Michael Capasso, in charge of the Harford County Detention Center.

Last night Dayton tried to escape, set upa dummy in his cell, hid in the laundry in a stackof sheets. For eight months he had strategized,memorizing guards and their routines, losing morethan 30 pounds to make a light jump to the street.Discovered in an unexpected fire drill. Thenthere's Jackson, armed robbery and assault, foundin the shower last week with a knife in his back.And Wade, already one safe escape. Made the mistakeof coming back to get his brother out. All this ina maximum-security place.

The warden who oversees the Baltimore Central Booking and Intake Center and seven other corrections employees have been suspended because of the alleged use of excessive force that left a female detainee hospitalized, state corrections officials said. Officials said a 26-year-old woman, who faced minor charges and was detained at the facility Jan. 8, was taken to a local hospital for injuries not considered to be life-threatening after the alleged abuse, according to a release from the Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services.

On September 14, 2003, PATRICIA DAVIS (nee Schupback) WARDEN, beloved wife of Harold S. Warden, devoted mother of Stephen Michael Warden and his wife Kelly. Grandmother of Jeffrey L. and Bryan J. Warden. Friends may call at the Family Owned and Operated Slack Funeral Home, P.A., 3871 Old Columbia Pike, Ellicott City, on Wednesday, 2 to 4 and 6 to 8 P.M. Funeral Services from the above funeral home Thursday, 10 A.M. Interment Lakeview Memorial Park.

On July 24, 2006 CHRISTOPHERRAYMOND WARDEN Born in Terrell, Texas on April 29, 2006 loving son of Beth Walger and Kenny Warden Grandson of Harry Melvin Walger and Sterling and Elizabeth Warden and many Aunts, Uncles and Cousins. A Funeral Service will be held at Christ the King Church, 1102 Hart Rd. on Monday July 31 at 10 A.M. Interment Forest Ridge Cemetery.

Services for Janice Lynn Warden, a paralegal, will be held at 11 a.m. tomorrow at Towson United Methodist Church, Hampton Lane and Dulaney Valley Road.Miss Warden died Thursday at her Lutherville home of cancer. She was 32.Born in Miami, Miss Warden moved to the Baltimore area with her family 23 years ago. She was educated at Notre Dame Preparatory School and graduated from Hood College in Frederick in 1980 with a bachelor's degree in dietetics.She worked as a diet technician at University Hospital but later trained as a paralegal.

Janice L. Warden, a retired Social Security Administration executive, died Friday of a stroke related to leukemia at Howard County General Hospital. The Columbia resident was 61. As deputy commissioner for operations from 1991 to 1998, she was responsible for day-to-day operation of 1,300 field offices, 37 telephone service and seven processing centers. About 50,000 people worked for the branches she supervised. Born Janice L. Roberts in Sharon, Ga., and raised in New York City's Harlem, she earned her bachelor's and master's degrees in sociology from the City University of New York.

HAGERSTOWN -- While a probe continues into the causes of the May 25 inmate uprising at the Maryland Correctional Institution at Hagerstown, the warden of the riot-torn prison has been transferred to an administrative position, state corrections officials said yesterday.Mason Waters, who was warden at MCI at Hagerstown for more than two years, will be replaced by Lloyd L. Waters, who is warden at the neighboring Maryland Correctional Training Center in Hagerstown, said Sgt. Gregory M. Shipley, corrections spokesman.

The warden at Maryland Correctional Institution-Hagerstown resigned in protest this week, criticizing the Maryland Division of Correction for "dictatorial leadership" and job cuts that show a "disregard for public safety." Joseph Sacchet, who has worked for more than 30 years in the corrections system at all three medium-security prisons near Hagerstown, said in a letter this week to The (Hagerstown) Herald-Mail, his staff and Corrections Commissioner Frank C. Sizer Jr. that he is resigning effective June 30. Through a department spokesman, Sizer said Sacchet "made a decision and we wish him well."

The Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor takes place only near the end of "From Here to Eternity" (1953). But it's an ideal selection for the Maryland Historical Society's series, "Patriotic Hollywood: World War II in Film." Stephen Ambrose once wrote, "What held [American GIs] together was not country and flag, but unit cohesion." "From Here to Eternity" is about the pain of building that unit cohesion and the rewards it gives to all who join it, be they selfless, selfish or damaged.

The publication, sent to an inmate at the Eastern Correctional Institution, includes a cartoon of a black woman drawn to resemble an ape. Next to her, a white man in a suit makes a racist remark about her hair. One look at it and the prison's warden instituted a ban on the monthly newsletter, which is produced by the Nationalist Movement, a white supremacist group based in Learned, Miss. "You have a very diverse population behind prison walls and, if this were to get out, it could pose some sort of a security issue, if people get their feathers ruffled over it," said Rosa Cruz, a spokeswoman for the prison system.

Stanley J. Foster Jr. of Towson, a former warden of the Baltimore County jail, died Friday of myasthenia gravis at Wildwood, N.J. He was 76. Born on Staten Island, N.Y., Mr. Foster graduated from Good Council High School in Newark, N.J. He joined the Army, serving in the Korean War as a training, supply and mess officer, and receiving an Occupation Medal (Germany) and a National Defense Service Medal. After his discharge Mr. Foster returned to New Jersey to marry his high school sweetheart, Marie C. Siele, about whom he said "there was no other love."

George Howard "Toots" Collins, a former warden with the Maryland Division of Correction who was active in numerous community organizations, died of complications from diabetes Tuesday at Continuum Care of Sykesville. He was 76. Mr. Collins graduated from Robert Moton High School and attended Catonsville Community College, Baltimore Community College and the University of Baltimore. He received a bachelor's and a master's degree in criminal justice from Coppin State University. He was warden of the Maryland State Penitentiary and Jessup Pre-Release Unit.

On July 24, 2006 CHRISTOPHERRAYMOND WARDEN Born in Terrell, Texas on April 29, 2006 loving son of Beth Walger and Kenny Warden Grandson of Harry Melvin Walger and Sterling and Elizabeth Warden and many Aunts, Uncles and Cousins. A Funeral Service will be held at Christ the King Church, 1102 Hart Rd. on Monday July 31 at 10 A.M. Interment Forest Ridge Cemetery.

From The Sun, July 11, 1906: "ELLICOTT CITY - At the meeting of the County Commissioners here ... the question arose, `Can the dog of the jail warden be taxed by Ellicott City?' The Commissioners differed from the city authorities, who wanted to tax the dog. They held that the warden was a county official and lived on county property, which could not be taxed by the city, and notified the Council to that effect." [ Sun staff researcher Paul McCardell contributed to this item.]

Robert Harleston, warden of the Eastern Correctional Institution in Somerset County, announced yesterday that he is resigning after nearly two years to take up other pursuits.The retired Army brigadier general's resignation, effective May 31, was neither sought nor expected by Bishop L. Robinson, the state secretary of public safety and correction, according to prison system spokesman Gregory M. Shipley.Mr. Harleston, 55, was hired by the prison system in June 1989 to take charge of ECI, a prison housing more than 2,300 inmates that had been plagued before and after its 1987 opening with construction and equipment defects, inmate unrest and criminal investigations of some of its correction officers.

MIAMI -- Florida's Department of Corrections, the nation's third-largest with 128 prisons and other facilities housing more than 85,000 inmates, is in the throes of a multifaceted scandal that shows no sign of stopping. A new interim chief appointed by Gov. Jeb Bush has been firing wardens and probing possible cases of corruption and cronyism among prison personnel, while state and federal agents have been investigating a prison-based steroid ring, theft of state property and misuse of inmate labor.

HAGERSTOWN -- Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. met yesterday with the wardens of five Western Maryland prisons where correctional officers are voicing increasing unhappiness over staff shortages they say have made their jobs less safe. After the meeting at the Roxbury Correctional Institution, Ehrlich spoke publicly for the first time about an RCI officer killed last month, allegedly by an inmate attempting an escape from a hospital. The governor described Officer Jeffery A. Wroten's death as a tragedy, but said his death "had nothing to do with staffing levels."