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A Maryland Correctional Training Center inmate who walked away from his unsupervised work-release job Monday night in Hagerstown has been found on South Potomac Street, according to Maryland State Police. Christopher K. Randolph, 50, was found about 5 p.m. at 317 S. Potomac St., state police said in a news release.   The state police's Hagerstown Criminal Investigative Section, the Maryland State Police Fugitive Apprehension Unit and Hagerstown Police Department officers found Randolph, who will be returned to the Maryland Division of Correction, the release said.

An inmate at Roxbury Correctional Institution south of Hagerstown suffered cuts to his body and a puncture wound to the eye, the Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services said Monday. The 30-year-old inmate, who is serving 13 years for robbery, larceny and other charges, was discovered shortly after 1 p.m. by correctional staff, according to a news release. The inmate was taken to Meritus Medical Center, where doctors determined he should be taken to a hospital in Baltimore for his eye injury, the release said.

The widow of a man who died at Eastern Regional Jail in Martinsburg two years ago claims in a lawsuit filed last month that authorities were negligent in his death. Donald Wayne Cline, 47, of Kearneysville, W.Va., was found unresponsive at Eastern Regional Jail on July 22, 2009, within hours after he was arrested and charged with driving under the influence of controlled substances or drugs, police have said. The lawsuit filed on July 20 by Tina Cline names as defendants the Berkeley County Commission (now Berkeley County Council)

A Washington County Circuit Court judge this week suspended the sentence of a Baltimore man who tried to smuggle heroin to an inmate he did not even know at the  Roxbury Correctional Institution. Judge M. Kenneth Long Jr. Tuesday gave Sean Rodney Bond, 37, a five-year suspended sentence and three years of probation, with the provision that he successfully complete a six-month, in-patient drug-rehabilitation program run by the Salvation Army. Officials at Roxbury, located south of Hagerstown, were alerted that someone would attempt to bring in drugs on Jan. 16, and a drug-sniffing dog detected narcotics on Bond, according to the statement of facts read in court by Assistant State's Attorney Viki Pauler.

An inmate suffered several puncture wounds and a possible head injury in a "one-on-one assault" at Roxbury Correctional Institution Monday night, according to a prison official. A homemade weapon was used in the assault, which was reported at 7:08 p.m., according to Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services spokesman Mark Vernarelli and a 911 dispatcher. The inmate's injuries were not believed to be serious, Vernarelli said. Roxbury Correctional Center is along Sharpsburg Pike, south of Hagerstown.

“Congratulations to the hardworking volunteers who organized the 2011 Relay For Life of Washington County, a great event. It would be perfect if the person who ‘borrowed’ the Pandora bracelet from the raffle tent would return it or make an $85 donation to cover the cost.” — Hagerstown “One person asked me what’s the difference between Democrat and Republican. Well, here it is. In Maryland, the teachers are getting raises — at least, in Washington County.

Authorities continue searching Tuesday morning for a Maryland Correctional Training Center inmate who walked away from a work detail near the prison south of Hagerstown on Monday afternoon, according to Maryland State Police. Jerome Taylor, 36, walked away from the outside work detail at the Hagerstown Regional Training Building on Division of Correction property at Roxbury Road at about 1:30 p.m. Monday, according to emailed information from the Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services.

An inmate who walked away from a work detail Monday near Maryland Correctional Training Center south of Hagerstown was captured Tuesday afternoon in Baltimore, Maryland State Police said. Jerome C. Taylor, 36, was arrested shortly after noon in the 1000 block of Madison Avenue in Baltimore, according to a state police news release. Police said Taylor was not armed and offered no resistance when he was arrested while walking down the street. Taylor was serving a five-year sentence for firearms violations and filing a false police report, the Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services said Monday.

Officials at the Washington County Detention Center will change the way inmates are guarded following the hanging death of a Hagerstown man in his cell Monday, Washington County Sheriff Douglas Mullendore said Tuesday. Mullendore said inmates no longer will have the option to stay in their cells when meals are served at the jail on Western Maryland Parkway. That follows the apparent suicide of Brayan Alejandro Mora-Castro, 22, of 351 S. Burhans Blvd., who was taken to Meritus Medical Center after deputies found him at about 4:30 p.m. hanging from a bed sheet that was attached to a sprinkler head in his cell, the sheriff's office said in a statement.